How Music League Is Turning Playlists into a Global Social Platform with Eric West

In this episode of the Iowa Tech Podcast, host Kaylee Williams sits down with Eric West, founder and CEO of Music League, a competitive music discovery game that's quietly grown to over 1.1 million registered users, starting from a handful of people in a break room.

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West breaks down how Music League works: players submit songs around a theme, listen to an anonymous playlist, and then vote - creating winners, losers, and a surprising amount of nostalgia, discovery, and community along the way. He explains the power of open leagues connecting players across the globe and why labels are obsessed with catalog rediscovery, from forgotten deep cuts to songs that suddenly go viral again.