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Is Streaming Good for Music?

Experts from across the music industry discuss the impact streaming has had on the business of selling music, and the way we listen to it.

Streaming has transformed the way millions listen to music. Whether signed up to Spotify, Apple Music or others, music lovers can access tens of millions of tracks instantly and for the monthly cost of one CD. But is this spectacular transformation good for music? Though streaming surely helps artists find new audiences, do those artists get rewarded fairly? And has having a ‘global jukebox’ at our fingertips changed our relationship to music itself?

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Sun 19 Jul 2015 13:05GMT

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