Can tech save the music industry?
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Argues streaming already grows revenues and returns the majority of income to rights holders while reaching less than 5% now, 20–30% projected of listeners worldwide and hosting 42 million tracks on big platforms, enabling precise playlisting via data and AI. Notes an economy where producers sit on a vault that could be three albums ready and attention spans favor singles. Proposes new formats from stem-based personalization to an infinite binaural experience and flags loudness compression as a creative constraint.
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