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Monte: There have been competitive situations, but I don't think it's just economics -- it's trying to align with tomorrow's next big superstar. Avery: Business is better, but it's not as if we're breaking more artists as an industry. Sometimes you've got to get in there, battle it out and win a derby. How do two brothers run a successful business without driving each other crazy?

Monte: [Our working relationship] goes back to our first lemonade stand, when I was 6 and he was 4. We had a slow day once, not too many cars going by, so we picked up our stuff and went door to door.

We've always been entrepreneurial. Let's talk about the Taylor Swift deal. Avery: How do I politely say, "There's not a chance in hell [we] can talk about that"? The Lipman brothers show off the up-and-coming talent they will be working to break in the coming months.

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The fact that he operated without a name, was just brilliant. What he did through art was force people to think and look differently. The symbol was a pretty brilliant business strategy too, you gotta give him that. Spending time with him, I don't think the spirit of it started with marketing, I think it came from that creative force. He's always been very vocal about anti-piracy and certain laws. Never a fan of people covering his music without permission. He would say 'Why wouldn't someone first call me and ask if it's cool?

I wrote that song. The past decade or so, you've seen this slow erosion of genre. If you're a punk kid, there's no shame in listening to pop music.

You look at him in the '80s, the Replacements wanted to see Prince play as much as anyone. He's one of the original pan-genre superstars. The biggest success is when you rise above any one genre of music and you become iconic. Essentially your name references the kind of music you make. Prince reached that category. You couldn't suggest he was just an urban artist, a pop artist. So much of what he made was based in rock music. Everybody could touch Prince. Every format, every genre could touch Prince.

When I would talk to him and we'd talk about pop music, he'd say, 'Why doesn't pop radio play Mozart? Miles Davis? If they understand the importance of Mozart or Miles Davis and present it in a fashion, you can definitely play it on pop radio!

And again, I'd walk away scratching my head thinking, 'Well I gotta think about that. He just looked at the world differently, and that's what made him such a brilliant artist and a brilliant human being. Search term. Billboard Pro Subscribe Sign In. Top Artists.

Top Charts. Hot Songs. Billboard Top Videos. Top Articles. By Andrew Flanagan. Copied to clipboard. The market has certainly changed, mostly with the sheer volume of new releases, but radio more than any other medium continues to be an important catalyst for navigating through the static and developing superstars in our business.

Artists involvement with their fanbases have grown exponentially given the use of social media platforms to message directly to the audience. Does the label have a role in this equation? We support the artist community and take our cues from their vision.

This direct-to-consumer process also can affect the demand for singles in the marketplace before the label calls the shot, as it was for a long period of time.

How do you handle this situation with Republic artists? Traditional rules no longer apply. Like the music itself, the promotion and marketing campaign of any project is an art form that allows for tremendous flexibility and experimentation. As a perpetual student of this business, I welcome new ideas and approaches to every new campaign. How do you balance the slower pace of radio callout research to determine hits, with the viral expediency of instant consumer reaction to artists and songs via social media platforms?