{"id":233559,"date":"2025-06-10T13:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=233559"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:27:19","slug":"nothing-will-stand-in-the-way-of-independents-and-why-the-worlds-first-three-person-indie-unicorn-is-only-a-matter-of-time-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/nothing-will-stand-in-the-way-of-independents-and-why-the-worlds-first-three-person-indie-unicorn-is-only-a-matter-of-time-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing will stand in the way of independents (and why the world\u2019s first three-person indie unicorn is only a matter of time away)"},"content":{"rendered":"MBW Views is a series of op-eds from eminent music industry people\u2026 with something to say. \r\n\r\nThe<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><h3>Sorry, you have hit your monthly limit of MBW+ articles!<\/h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">log in<\/a> to gain unlimited access to all analysis and data on Music Business Worldwide, plus other member benefits.\r\n\r\n<div class=\"mbw-plus__buttons\"><a class=\"buttons__subscribe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a>\r\n<a class=\"buttons__login\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">Login<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revelator&#8217;s Bruno Guez on the strength of the independent music sector<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[130621],"class_list":["post-233559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","tag-mbw-views"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}