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bundle. It’s the helical theory of history, where from one standpoint we’ve come full circle (“rebundling into an album-like playlist”) but from another axis we’ve made amazing progress (“anyone can play any individual song and create whatever playlist they want”).
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
The most frequent complaint I hear about streaming services is that they don’t pay artists fairly. Michael Pelczynski, the former Vice President of Strategy at SoundCloud, took that complaint personally. Over his five years with the streaming service, he helped conceive and implement a novel payment scheme that received much praise.
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Chris Dalla Riva • Music's Past & Future: Talking with Michael Pelczynski
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek explains how the company plans to help artists (and itself) make money
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One is it was trying to solve a consumer problem with the industry and then two, is technology was enabling this digital consumption of music and the industry just was not forward on that. iTunes was a reaction, if you will, to the ripping services, whereas you could have argued actually it should have been what drove the consumer to the digital fo... See more