We’re now paying for the convenience to listen to whatever we like, wherever we like, however many times we like.Īs a Spotify Premium subscriber, my £9.99 monthly subscription allows me to to do this from my choice of 30 million streamable tracks – and I’m doing my best to get through them all.
Smartphones have limited storage space, so why clog up your device with all your tracks when you can easily pick and choose what you want to listen to online, in real time? Customers aren’t paying just to hear the music these days – there are plenty of ways we can do that for free. The game is changing again, and just like when CD sales plummeted due to downloads, now connection speeds are so quick that streaming is in and downloads are on the way out Or in the case of big record labels – making money from other people’s hard work.įast forward to 2015 – fifteen years on from the infamous ‘Napster vs Metallica’ legal showdown (yeah, I feel old too). Since the comically futile ‘Home Taping is Killing Music’ campaign of the ‘80’s, disruptive technology has struck fear into the hearts of musicians making money from their hard work.
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