The everyday economics of hanging supply and demand, streaming music meant new kinds of contracts with record companies and new relationships with consumers.
Economic History
Taylor Swift Gives Apple a Little Taste of Capitalism

By asking Apple to pay her and other artists when customers get their music for free displays Taylor Swift’s understanding of the basics of capitalism.

Although creative destruction has transformed the music industry's technology, still songs are the same length.
Business
The Long Life of the 3 to 4 Minute Song

Moving from records to digital, the music industry has undergone creative destruction but the length of a song between 3 and 4 minutes has been the same.

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