Panic Among the Streamers
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
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
