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Derek Sivers
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There is an overload of music. 60,000 songs are uploaded to Spotify every day. Over 20% of those don’t get streamed even once. The ubiquitous access to almost every piece of recorded music in history has led to a paradox of choice, promoting passive and playlist-driven music consumption and creating winner-take-all effects for the biggest artists.
Yash Bagal • A New Funnel for Music
What is Spotify? When you abstract the service to its basics, it is a content distribution platform with a payment system.
Om Malik • What Twitter Can Learn From Spotify
Spotify has inserted sponsored songs in listeners’ playlists, and has also discussed charging artists and labels for data about their habits.
Bloomberg Businessweek • Spotify’s Newest Pitch to Labels and Musicians: Now You Pay Us
Spotify, for example, has invested heavily in its own curation services — both algorithmic and human — after finding that many of its listeners were baffled by superabundance, burdened by excessive choice and uninterested in charting their own paths through the digital wilderness.