This is Eric Golden and my guest today is Jay Stolar. Jay is a musician, songwriter, and producer whose songs have been streamed over 200 million times and recorded by artists ranging from Selena Gomez to John Legend. Jay is also the co-founder of Hume Collective, a Web3 record label that creates music and virtual artists in the metaverse. We discuss Jay’s songwriting process and music career, the challenges he faced as a songwriter in the existing music industry, the creation of virtual pop star angelbaby, and what Web3 will do for songwriters in the future. Please enjoy this conversation with Jay Stolar.   For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here.   -----   This episode is brought to you by OKX. You may have seen OKX on McLaren’s Formula 1 race car or Manchester City’s football kit. But what is OKX? OKX has over 730 spot trading pairs, 280 derivatives markets, and 1000 options markets. It processes 400,000 requests per second with 99.95% uptime. That’s why over 20 million traders and institutions choose OKX when they want to trade. Visit okx.com to learn more.   -----   Web3 Breakdowns is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Web3 Breakdowns, visit joincolossus.com/episodes.   Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here.   Follow us on Twitter: @Web3Breakdowns | @ericgoldenx | @patrick_oshag    Show Notes [00:02:20] - [First question] - His background and what it’s been like to live the life of an artist  [00:06:52] - How good the songs are that he tries to write every single day  [00:08:52] - When you know you have a hit on your hands  [00:10:58] - Persevering through writer’s block and the origin of the word genius [00:14:27] - How he went from being a musician to writing for Selena Gomez and pop stars [00:22:47] - Starting from a position of opportunity not disrupting an existing industry  [00:25:40] - What a virtual artist or metastar is and how to create one [00:27:30] - Transitioning from a digital project to Web3 [00:29:55] - Overview of angelbaby their origin story [00:33:52] - How the mechanics of angelbaby as an artist works  [00:37:02] - Organizing and engaging with a community that has influence over the project [00:40:10] - How community voting impacts songwriting  [00:43:01] - Visions for HUME as a platform and label [00:45:56] - What he’s most excited to see built over the next six months and six years