What Music Can Learn From The Comedy Industry

Joining us on the New Music Business is the CEO of Comedy Dynamics, Brian Volk-Weiss, who’s officially our first guest that does not exclusively work in the music industry. Given how parallel these two industries are, there are incredible revelations on how he operates the most successful independent comedy record label in the world.

04:20 Welcome

08:02 Breaking into the comedy industry

11:35 Managing comics

18:53 Retiring from management

22:25 Launching the Comedy Dynamics record label

28:35 Audio rights

30:56 Where is the money coming from?

32:22 Grammy nominations

36:34 Record deals within the comedy industry

50:26 How to write moral record contracts

59:47 What’s on the horizon?

1:02:55 Final question

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Edited and mixed by Maxton Hunter

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Release date

Lydbog: 20. juli 2022