You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song How Streaming Changes Music

Binding: Paperback
Description: If you want to know anything about how music surfaces today how to find it or how to create it you will find what you need right here. Joseph Menn Washington Post writer One of the best music books of the year Neil Mc Cormick Daily Telegraph For the first time in history almost every song ever recorded is available instantly. Everywhere. This book charts what music's dazzling digital revolution really means for fans and artists. As a former data guru at the world's biggest streaming service Spotify Glenn Mc Donald reveals: What the tech giants know about you How they serve up your next song Whether fans can cheat the algorithm Whether jazz is dead and ASMR is the new punk Your chances of becoming a rock star Having analysed the streams of 500 million people Mc Donald explores what the data tells us about music and about ourselves from the secrets of russel ter in Norway to Christmas in the Philippines. Statistically you have not yet heard your lifetime's favourite song. This book will take you on a voyage of discovery through music's fast - flowing new waters. 10 bonus playlists of wonder included! About the Author Glenn Mc Donald is expertly placed to provide a comprehensive picture of the global music industry in the 2020s. Growing up in 198 Os and 1990s America he was an obsessive collector of physical music C Ds and vinyl albums. But he soon realised the revolutionary power of digital media to make songs more widely accessible. He started working at the US music intelligence startup The Echo Nest which was acquired by Spotify and he became Spotify's Data Alchemist. His website Every Noise at Once (everynoise. com) is an unprecedented computational map of the world's music genres. Reviews If you want to know anything about how music surfaces today how to find it or how to create it you will find what you need right here. And you will be highly entertained and amused in the process. Joseph Menn Washington Post staff writer and author of All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster. We used to sell C Ds by the weight of pallets thanks to streaming we know how our content is consumed. In this immersive book Glenn has demonstrated what we can do with this knowledge so other industries can learn Will Page author of Pivot and former Chief Economist of Spotify I'd say that reading this book is the next best thing to having an in - depth impassioned hours - long fika with Glenn Mc Donald about music and culture and all of the most burning topics of our time but I'd be lying. It's even better. This book is a true behind - the - scenes examination of our culture and our industry from the perspective of someone who was in the thick of it from the beginning. It's a history of the streaming era written by someone who made history in the streaming era. Meg Tarquinio Ph D Spotify/ Twitch/ Nettwerk Music Group Throughout Mc Donald's book personal anecdotes and his own love of music spill out in witty conversational prose. Even chapters that delve into streaming's complex finances unsurprisingly your 15 monthly fee does not go directly to your favourite artist but is split between that month's "most streamed " meaning that megastars such as Swift and Ed Sheeran stay at the top of the pyramid are told in layman's terms. Poppie Platt The Daily Telegraph Ideal for anyone who wants to know how Spotify Amazon Music Deezer You Tube Music and other music platforms work whether as a fan musician or music business professional. Buy the book and start reading!
Title: You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song How Streaming Changes Music
Author(s): Mcdonald Glenn
Publisher: Canbury Press
Barcode: 9781914487156
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 6/20/2024
Category: Algorithms & Data Structures