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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The History of the 2010s Part 2: The Role of Indie Rock
Description: Traditional wisdom says that the recorded music industry is dominated by the major labels...there used to be a bunch of them, but over the last 25 years, their number has been whittled down to just three companies: universal (the biggest), Sony, and warner music...Here’s something you may not have know...at last estimate, about 95,000 songs are uploaded to the streaming music services every day...of that number, only about 4% are from those three majors...the rest is from indie labels and do-it-yourself musicians...Let me flip that around: 96% of all new music comes fr...