But given Spotify has built an audience of music fans, there is also a strong argument to be made that the company is also uniquely positioned to reshape the prospects for music podcasts. Most of the attention has focused on Spotify programming deals like the one with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's content studio. One of the bigger podcast stories over the past few years has centered on Spotify, the music streaming platform that has spent tons of money to date on podcasts as part of a strategy to become much more than a music streaming platform. QUAH: But those productions rely heavily on the fair use doctrine, an important but often wobbly legal standard that allows part of a song to be played for limited purposes, or on direct (ph) coordination of music labels, a process that can be prohibitively time consuming and arbitrary.Ī recent development marks a possible step forward on this matter. And in this episode, Dan Wilson, the singer and songwriter of the band Semisonic, tells the whole story. But it turns out, there's more to the story. And I always figured I knew what the song was about - closing time at a bar. "Closing Time" by Semisonic is one of those songs for me and I think for a lot of people. HRISHIKESH HIRWAY: There's some songs that you've heard over and over and over again throughout your life. There have, of course, been prominent exceptions "Switched On Pop" and "Song Exploder." But few can make ones about music that actually use the music in question without potentially drawing the ire of music labels. Sure, the cliche remains true that anybody can theoretically make a podcast.
NICK QUAH: Music podcasts have a tricky history, primarily for copyright reasons. There's certainly no shortage of podcasts about music, but podcast critic Nick Quah says he found a few casual yet compelling shows in perhaps an unlikely place.
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