The New Music Business with Ari Herstand - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I take an hour every day to listen to advice from Ari on his podcasts/YouTube channel about how I can improve the business side of my music. I’ve paid for two of his courses on Ari’s Take Academy and LOVE all the knowledge I’ve learned from him and the instructors that help him. 100% recommend Ari to anyone looking to “make it” in the music industry, whatever that looks like for you :)

Thanks to the trove of valuable information, I’ve been able to start my own company.
Now XSTSound/HyMettus Woods sells a composition at least once a month and I’m pleased,now, with the amount I can ask and maintain publishing and masters.

Thanks to Ari and the pod, I’m growing as a business and growing as an artist.

Highly recommended.

Every episode is a learning experience for anyone in the modern music industry. I like to cherry pick episodes based on what I’m working on at the time, and there’s almost always something that helps me out or at least points me in the right direction.
Thank you Ari!

I was happily listening to this podcast a couple years ago and one comment from Ari during one episode had had me completely stop listening (until I recently decided to give it another try) Over reaction? Perhaps. But also a testament to how incredibly powerful words can be to sensitive artist types like me working so hard at creating and believing in their Quixotic vision… the comment was something along the lines of telling artist that the one thing they should not do if they want to become successful is have kids.
I had recently gotten news that my partner and I were unexpectedly expecting, and this felt like a real punch in the gut. Even though I know of a lot of artists who had kids while working on the beginning stages of their music careers. I myself am not a successful singer songwriter in that I don’t make a living off of it yet. But today, I can tell you I have never been as productive as well as happy with my music as since the birth of my daughter.

Yet I still feel the need to seek out encouragement, an inspiration from others in the music industry. I’m so sick of this industry acting like having kids is worse than getting the plague and a couple artist friends I know who are on labels even felt the need to hide the fact they were becoming parents for fear of being dropped!
Ari, I would encourage you to think of this along the same line that what you said in a brilliant recent show you hosted with Ni/Co, regarding people using the phrase “failed release.“

In fact! If you read this, I would love to see you do an episode (or a series!) On parenting in music. check out the website Parents In Jazz, for example. Of course, having kids is challenging at a high level, but that’s exactly why artists who our parents sometimes have incredible productivity hacks that could be an inspiration to all. And would be extremely reassuring and supportive for current parents to hear as they’re trying to make it to the next level of their music carriers. Thank you for reading!

It’s extremely annoying when the host does 80% of the talking and we never really get to go deep to hear the ideas of the guest. This host talks and talks and talks, and the guest end up just saying “uh huh” and “yah” when he manages to take a breath.

It should be very obvious for a podcast host to know when to shut up and stay quiet and let the guest talk. But this host has a bad case of “ I love to hear myself talk.”