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Spotify: saint or sinner?

It is claimed Spotify killed off the record industry. But might Spotify ultimately save the music scene?

31 January 2015

9:00 AM

31 January 2015

9:00 AM

We have all read about the current woeful state of the CD industry — how it is 28 per cent down on last year, which was 25 per cent down on the previous year, and so on — but do we know why? Is it the endless financial crisis? Or is it that CDs, as a concept, are knackered? And this is despite the fact that more people are taking an interest in recorded music than ever before.

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