It's So Krucial

Episode 15 of It's So Krucial is all about some recent developments in the past week of the music business, no guest this week! We discuss a wide ranging group of topics: - An investigation into the Russian Performing Rights Society - RAO - The IFPI's most successful artist list (wrongly credited to Billboard during the podcast - sorry!) - The Prince estate's recent UMG deal - WMG making their Prince masters available on all streaming services - Pandora's recent finance call with wall street We also get into the GRAMMYs, which were happening right as we were recording. Kerry tells some great stories about his experiences in previous years, and a couple interesting facts about the voting process. Finally, for those who are score keeping...Here are how Kerry's predictions fared against the actual results of the GRAMMYs: Album of the Year: - Prediction: Lemonade by Beyonce - Actual: 25 by Adele Song of the Year: - Prediction: 7 Years by Lukas Graham - Actual: Hello by Adele Record of the Year: - Predicti