As Apple hits 100 million songs, the future of music discovery gets complicated

Apple Music celebrated the milestone of hitting 100 million songs this week — “more music than you can listen to in a lifetime, or several lifetimes”, global head of editorial, Rachel Newman, wrote in the announcement. Yet what is a celebration for Apple may ring alarm bells for many artists, who are finding it increasingly hard to break through in a market that just got even more oversaturated and hyper-fragmented.

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