Music streaming - how it started and what Taylor Swift left out.
In this post I will try to explore the history and future of media streaming services. I got interested in this topic recently when Taylor Swift took on two major streaming service providers - Spotify and Apple Music. She caused a huge media frenzy when she told the world what she thought about music streaming services. As I read through her comments and peoples reaction to her, I felt there was something missing in the discourse. Her comments felt like she was over simplifying the whole issue and that she was missing something more important. Taylor Swift seemed to think that music streaming is bad for artists because it devalues their product by not charging listeners enough and not paying artist enough. Spotify CEO defended streaming services as the future of music distribution and saying they are paying a lot ($2 Billion) in royalties for the music they stream online and will only get bigger. This was basically the two main camps in the Taylor Swift vs Music Streaming debate a