@Carlos - I think people have a *very* good idea of how the music business works: The artists produce content, the end-user consumes it for a price. All the other moving parts are unnecessary middle-men who take money from both ends of the chain. There are plenty of ways for new artists to get "airtime" (peer review), etc. Look at what Netflix has done with some pretty sophisticated marketing algorithms (if you liked movie "X", then we recommend...) Whether it's Apple, Amazon, whomever -- the traditional music business has been dying a long slow death. Someone please step up and finish them off.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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@Carlos - I think people have a *very* good idea of how the music business works: The artists produce content, the end-user consumes it for a price. All the other moving parts are unnecessary middle-men who take money from both ends of the chain. There are plenty of ways for new artists to get "airtime" (peer review), etc. Look at what Netflix has done with some pretty sophisticated marketing algorithms (if you liked movie "X", then we recommend...) Whether it's Apple, Amazon, whomever -- the traditional music business has been dying a long slow death. Someone please step up and finish them off.