The Dark Science of Pop Music
Record companies are tracking download and search data to predict which new songs will be hits. This has been good for business—but is it bad for music? In 2000, a Stanford Ph.D. named Avery Wang co-founded, with a couple of business-school graduates, a tech start-up called Shazam. Their idea was to …
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