How the Business of Streaming Music Will Change Culture…For the Better

Fri, 06/08/2012 - 06:45 EDT - The Curious Capitalist

Forget, for the moment, about how much Spotify pays out to artists. Focus instead on the nature of those payouts. In the olden days (i.e. 20 years ago), recording artists had to convince you to fall for their music once — just long enough to buy a CD. Since the inception of pop music as a physical format, [...]

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