Catalog streams dominate as 100,000 tracks arrive daily
S. streams, per Luminate's year-end report — and the discovery crunch is the story.
Music & Audio
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What loudness normalization actually does to the records you stream
Streaming services and broadcasters now turn every track toward a common reference level — here is how that measurement works, where the targets came from, and what it changed about comparing releases.
How Festival Cashless Wristbands Actually Work
No wallets, no ATMs, no lost cash in the crowd — here's the tech behind the tap-to-pay wristband running vendor lines at Lollapalooza, EDC Las Vegas, and most major festivals now.
Why new albums come out on Friday everywhere
The record industry synchronised release day in 2015. Here is who decided it, what it replaced, and what it changed for charts and college radio.
How Streaming Royalties Actually Work for Electronic Music Producers
Spotify pays out by streamshare, not by a fixed rate per play — here's what that means for a working producer, and why the same stream can be worth twice as much on one platform as another.
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