spotify

just been reading the results of a survey in which it shows Spotify have overtaken I tunes in Europe and expect this to continue elsewhere

 

m welborn

Interesting, although there is an artist’s backlash against Spotify.  Taylor Swift has just removed her entire back catalogue (it won’t keep me awake at night – I don’t think I could name a single track of hers!!)

 

I haven't bought from iTunes in two years, and now only use Spotify and Tidal.

The amount, and variety of music I listen too has magnified tenfold.

I remember the hoo-hah about MOTS when the BS5 was released, - does anyone have any comments regarding the supposed sophistication of selections of MOTS compared to the playlists/stations of Spotify etc?

yes this very interesting, it looks like the iTunes model maybe showing its age (but the report did say their respective iTune profits were up).

Personally I still struggle with Spotify and I can't understand why as I'm a huge consumer of music and still enjoy buying the physical as well as listening to radio.

But I do find it exciting as I've lived through vinyl, reel to reel, cassette, CD, Mini Disc and MP3.

I'm intrigued where we will be in the next 5 - 10 years but hope we don't loose any music because it's on a format we will not be able to read in the future.