Universal Music Group: The Gatekeepers of Music
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Universal Music Group: The Gatekeepers of Music
We all know about Netflix, we all know about Spotify and other media categories, and we also know what it has done to some industries... The music industry has lost, in the digital transformation, approximately 50 percent of its overall revenue pool.
— Markus Dohle, CEO, Penguin Publishing House
Elle Griffin • No One Buys Books
The first industry to be steamrolled by the switch to real time and the cloud of copies was music.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Thirteen years ago today, I wrote a blog post that changed my life.
I was a 20-year-old summer intern at NPR Music, sitting in front of the Tiny Desk, grappling with the contraction between how much I loved music and how little I paid for it.
I wrote that I had 11,000 songs in my iTunes library, yet had only purchased 15 CDs.
Spotify had just... See more
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