How Long Will It Take Streaming To Dominate the Music Business?

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 5, 2015 @08:51AM from the what-about-cassette-tapes dept.

journovampire writes with this story about the booming music streaming business. "Streaming is on course to make more money for the U.S. music business than downloads and physical sales combined within the next three years. The U.S. appears poised for streaming to become its most valuable music format in either 2016 or 2017, according to MBW forecasts – so long as you include SoundExchange royalties generated by digital radio platforms like Pandora alongside subscription and ad-supported platforms like Spotify. But in the other three biggest recorded music markets in the world – France, Germany and Japan – the public appears more hesitant to allow streaming to take over."

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Re: No thanks by AvitarX · 2015-01-05 08:59 · Score: 5, Informative

I'm thrilled with what I get for 9.95 with Google play.
A selection of "radio" stations tailored to my interests and the time of day/day of week, with holidays accounted for, really good automatic station based on whatever I've been listening too lately, but within a genre, and the ability to have a library that I can side load to.
It's increased my music spending a little, but made driving so much more pleasant.

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Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg