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

The barriers of production and distribution have been lowered enough that indie success is now rare, but possible. I don’t know how many of the top 1000 CDs in 1999 were independent releases, but I bet it was lot fewer than 25%, and probably fewer than 38. The new numbers for independent music are astonishing even if we don’t know what the old ones were.