{"id":3035,"date":"2021-10-02T06:45:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T04:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/02\/odds-are-against-you-the-problem-with-the-music-streaming-boom\/"},"modified":"2021-10-02T06:45:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T04:45:15","slug":"odds-are-against-you-the-problem-with-the-music-streaming-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/02\/odds-are-against-you-the-problem-with-the-music-streaming-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Odds are against you\u2019: the problem with the music streaming boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As dust from the gold rush settles, big record companies and elite artists emerge firmly on top<\/p>\n<p>With the streaming revolution breathing new life into a once-moribund music industry collapsing under plummeting CD sales and rampant piracy, the world\u2019s biggest record companies \u2013 Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2021\/sep\/21\/universal-music-group-shares-surge-lucian-grainge-listing\">have got their financial mojo back.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After facing financial ruin a decade ago, the trio, which control the vast majority of the world\u2019s biggest hits with a roster of talent spanning Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and Coldplay to the Beatles, Adele and the Korean megaband BTS, are now valued at a combined $100bn (\u00a373.8bn) as investors bank on the titans being the biggest winners of the streaming boom.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2021\/oct\/02\/odds-are-against-you-the-problem-with-the-music-streaming-boom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0a93069e4cba4c549ec476c558f0b22cd9b05d3c\/0_248_4840_2903\/master\/4840.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=cfd0bc1ca8456a9d9dc49b47e1d033f6\" title=\"\u2018Odds are against you\u2019: the problem with the music streaming boom\" \/>As dust from the gold rush settles, big record companies and elite artists emerge firmly on top<br \/>\nWith the streaming revolution breathing new life into a once-moribund music industry collapsing under plummeting CD sales and rampant piracy, the world\u2019s biggest record companies \u2013 Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music \u2013 have got their financial mojo back.<br \/>\nAfter facing financial ruin a decade ago, the trio, which control the vast majority of the world\u2019s biggest hits with a roster of talent spanning Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and Coldplay to the Beatles, Adele and the Korean megaband BTS, are now valued at a combined $100bn (\u00a373.8bn) as investors bank on the titans being the biggest winners of the streaming boom. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As dust from the gold rush settles, big record companies and elite artists emerge firmly on top With the streaming revolution breathing new life into a once-moribund music industry collapsing under plummeting CD sales and rampant piracy, the world\u2019s biggest record companies \u2013 Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music \u2013 have got their financial &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/02\/odds-are-against-you-the-problem-with-the-music-streaming-boom\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Odds are against you\u2019: the problem with the music streaming boom<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}