Your Next Favorite Song Might Not Be Human - Gadi Gidor
120,000 new songs hit streaming platforms every day. Half of them are AI-generated. A quarter billion songs are already out there, and 75% of them never reach 1,000 streams.
Gadi Gidor, one of Israel's most influential music executives, has spent 25 years building the careers of artists like Eli Botner, Ran Danker, Idan Raichel, and Noam Kleinstein. In this episode of The Autonomous Business, he sits down with Mickey Haslavsky to break down what AI is really doing to the music industry, and who comes out on top.
What we cover: 00:00 Why the music industry will never look the same 00:00 120,000 songs a day and nobody's listening 00:00 The album is dead. What replaced it? 00:00 The Lean Startup model arrives in music 00:00 Why 5,000 superfans are worth more than a million streams 00:00 How virality really works: TikTok first, Spotify second 00:00 AI as a creative partner, not a replacement 00:00 The future: will we even need human artists?
Gadi Gidor is a music executive, producer, and artist manager who has shaped some of the most important careers in Israeli music over the past two decades.
Mickey Haslavsky is CEO and Co-Founder of enso, an infrastructure platform for autonomous businesses, and host of The Autonomous Business podcast. Previously, Mickey founded Rapid, which was acquired by Nokia.