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

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once a streaming service allows listeners to make playlists themselves, and learns how to use algorithms to generate personalized playlists for them, then there’s effectively no constraint of scale. In the same way that streaming allows 10 million artists online, it allows 100 million fans to become curators of essentially the same format as RapCaviar, and 500 million fans to be audiences of the new minimum size of one.

— Glenn McDonald

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