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Click Track covers the past, present, and future of the music industry—with a strong emphasis on technical insight and economic analysis.
The greatest hits
These are notable Click Track essays, categorized by their topic:
Business profiles
Merck Mercuriadis and his billion-dollar empire are the heroes that songwriters need
Inside Audioshake, using AI to recreate lost stems for hit songs
Market analysis
NFTs won't save the recorded music industry, but they might save the live events industry
The #BrokenRecord movement's quest to "fix" the music industry (and why they are wrong)
Podcasts are the new battleground between the music streaming sites and the record labels
History
Songkick's fall from grace: Most startups die of suicide. But Songkick was murdered
The dark history of the jukebox: how the Mafia used murder to build music machine empires
Robots as rockstars: how artificial intelligence is the future of making music
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