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Generation Hour

helun yuan

Weekly deep dives into how AI is rewriting the music business — from royalty realignments to platform governance. Two hosts unpack TIDAL, Spotify, Udio and the shifting rules of who gets paid.

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49 episodes

  1. Generation Hour EP50: iFlytek Music — Turning Hit-Making Luck Into a Replicable System 0:58
  2. Generation Hour EP49: Suno vs MLC & $337M Lawsuit 0:53
  3. Generation Hour EP48: $1M to Attribute Every AI Song — Copyright Attribution Is the New Frontline 0:47
  4. Generation Hour EP47: Underground Idol Crisis — 417 Groups, Not Enough Fans 0:53
  5. Generation Hour EP46: 36.47 Billion in 10 Days — Concerts Reshape Holiday Tourism 1:28
  6. Generation Hour EP45: AI War & Fake Streams — Copyright Battles and the Bot Black Market 2:00
  7. Generation Hour EP44: Kamasi Tour Chaos — SoundFact vs CAN Festival 1:02
  8. Generation Hour EP43: AI Hits the Stage — Gongshexiao Band, Suno Siege & the Live-Music Reckoning 1:22
  9. Generation Hour EP42: Suno Under Siege — V6 Backlash, $9B Lawsuit & The AI Music Reckoning 1:20
  10. Generation Hour EP41: iHeart Goes to Disney+ — Why the Radio Giant Just Became a Streaming Asset 1:30
  11. Generation Hour EP40: UMG × ElevenLabs — Major Label Just Built a Licensed AI Remix Platform 1:21
  12. Generation Hour EP39: When 7 Acts Drop Out of a Festival — What Time Fengjun’s Summer Crash Says About Fan Ecosystem Risk 2:03
  13. Generation Hour EP38: Marshall Sponsors China Rock Honors — Why "Defend the Live Show" Still Matters in the AI Era 1:34
  14. Generation Hour EP37: Xiao Jun / 肖骏: "I Don't Think I'm a Singer" — Guitar, Blue Note & Fender Next 1:35
  15. Generation Hour EP36: At Wave Music Forum, Zhang Yadong & Liu Lian Ask What AI Can’t Copy in 《Original Music》 1:50
  16. Generation Hour EP35: BMG + Concord Close Merger — The World’s Fourth Major Music Group Takes Shape 1:42
  17. Generation Hour EP34: Aranya Xiami Turns a Beach Festival into a "Super Touchpoint" — Content, Scene, Experience 1:51
  18. Generation Hour EP33: From Voice Rooms to the Arena — Virtual Singer "Kong"'s Companion-Style Advance 1:11
  19. Generation Hour EP32: ARIA Bars Fully AI-Generated Songs from Australia's Official Charts 1:33
  20. Generation Hour EP31: Strawberry Music Festival 2026 — 8 Cities, 580K People, and Why “Traffic” Artists Can’t Save Ticket Sales Anymore 1:40
  21. Generation Hour EP30: Hu Chenyu Returns to Yantai — The Sea Rising Bright Moon Festival & the City Weekend Economy 0:53
  22. Generation Hour EP29: 75,000 AI Songs a Day — But 1% of the Plays 1:42
  23. Generation Hour EP28: The Rise of G.E.M. and the Female Singer Concert Era 1:51
  24. Generation Hour EP27: AI Backstage — Quantizr Raises $5M to Automate Live Music Finance 1:27
  25. Generation Hour EP26: Apple Music Tags Suno Tracks as AI — Then Hands Blame to Labels 1:16
  26. Generation Hour EP24: Round Hill Takes AI Music Copyright Fight to the Next Stage 1:16
  27. Generation Hour EP23: Q2 Music Earnings Roundup — Live Leads, Streaming Splits 1:00
  28. Generation Hour EP22: Ticketmaster Brings in Google Gemini — AI Layout Speeds Up 1:11
  29. Generation Hour EP21: Suno Releases Studio 2.0 — Embracing Professional Musicians 1:03
  30. Generation Hour EP20: Beatport Introduces AI Detection to Block Fully AI-Generated Music 1:25
  31. Generation Hour EP19: Munich Court Rules Suno Infringed GEMA — AI Training Meets the Bill 1:58
  32. Generation Hour EP18: MiniMax Music3 + Suno Studio 2.0 — AI Music Enters the DAW 1:56
  33. Generation Hour EP17: Spotify x Kobalt — AI Covers Get a Licensed Door 1:51
  34. Generation Hour EP16: Suno x BMG, Download Caps & Watermarks — AI Music Goes Licensed and Gated 2:14
  35. Generation Hour EP15: KOMCA Ends AI Music Ban — Disclosure Beats Prohibition 1:54
  36. Generation Hour EP14: Spotify Labels AI Personas & Kicks Them Out of Discovery 2:04
  37. Generation Hour EP13: Spotify Hits 300M Paying Users — Profit Mode Changes the Game 1:54
  38. Generation Hour EP12: Spotify x Merlin License AI Covers — Gray Market Gets a Rail 1:43
  39. Generation Hour EP11: Suno Presses Vinyl — Membership Isn't Ownership 1:01
  40. Generation Hour EP10: EU AI Act Article 50 Is Live — AI Music Must Label Itself 1:45
  41. Generation Hour EP9: Concerts Eat the Live Market — 145.44B RMB vs 980M Festival 2:16
  42. Generation Hour EP8: Douyin x Qishui Top Ten — How China Makes a Hit Without Radio 2:18
  43. Generation Hour EP7: GEMA Launches PLAI — Licensed Data for AI Music Training 1:30
  44. Generation Hour EP6: AI Music Hits the Charts — IFPI's Global Eligibility Rules 2:03
  45. Generation Hour EP5: Google Lyria 3.5 Sings Human — Flow Music Upgrade 1:51
  46. Generation Hour EP4: BTS Comeback Drives HYBE to $10B — ARIRANG & Netflix Live 1:33
  47. Generation Hour EP3: Games Meet Live Music — Shen Lihui's Strawberry Game House Play 1:49
  48. Generation Hour EP2: AI Music Gets a Receipt — SOCAN × Musical AI Attribution 1:54
  49. The Great AI Royalty Realignment — TIDAL, Spotify & Udio 3:08