The Ghost in the Machine Wants a Cut

For a hundred years the music business ran on scarcity. A small head of hits drove most of the revenue, and the engine was simple: protect the hits, ignore the rest. Streaming did not break that. It made the head bigger. Drake alone accounts for more of Spotify than the bottom fifty thousand artists combined. Generative music breaks it for real, but not in the way the doomsayers think.

Source: The Ghost in the Machine Wants a Cut

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