You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song
Glenn Mcdonald
- 20 juni 2024
- 9781914487156
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From Spotify’s ‘Data Alchemist’ comes a comprehensive guide to music’s digital revolution. From vinyl in the 1990s to streaming in the 2000s, You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song charts how streaming has changed the global musical landscape for all genres, from rap to punk to jazz.
‘If you want to know anything about how music surfaces today, how to find it, or how to create it, you will find what you need right here. And you will be highly entertained and amused in the process. ’ JOSEPH MENN, WASHINGTON POST WRITER
For the first time in history, almost every song ever recorded is available instantly. Everywhere.
This book charts what music’s dazzling digital revolution really means for fans and artists.
As a former data guru at the world’s biggest streaming service, Spotify, Glenn McDonald reveals:
• What the tech giants know about you
• How they serve up your next song
• Whether fans can cheat the algorithm
• Whether jazz is dead and ASMR is the new punk
• Your chances of becoming a rock star
Having analysed the streams of 500 million people, McDonald explores what the data tells us about music and about ourselves, from the secrets of russelåter in Norway to Christmas in the Philippines. Statistically, you have not yet heard your lifetime’s favourite song. This book will take you on a voyage of discovery through music’s fast-flowing new waters.
10 bonus playlists of wonder included!
From Spotify’s ‘Data Alchemist’ comes a comprehensive guide to music’s digital revolution.
Starting with the 1990s days of vinyl and CDs and moving quickly to the explosion of new technology in the 2000s, and then onto the rapidly changing soundscape of the 2020s, YOU HAVE NOT YET HEARD YOUR FAVOURITE SONG is a fast-paced, factual look at:
• How streaming has changed the musical landscape for all global music genres, from rap to punk to jazz
• How people worldwide listen differently and what type of songs and artists are popular in each country
• How music gets onto the streaming platforms, and what platforms like Spotify know about you as a listener
• How Spotify and rivals reward artists and the record companies and the lengths some musicians go to to game the algorithm
• How to exploit the fact that pretty much every song ever recorded is available now, at the touch of the button – and discover new music. (Statistically, you have not yet heard your favourite song...).
With 10 free exploratory playlists downloadable by QR code