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Chart Of The Week. Playlists 1, Albums 0 – How Streaming Is Changing Music Listening

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Mark Mulligan
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Chart Of The Week
Chart Of The Week
The album has been under assault ever since Napster first gave consumers the ability cherry pick their favourite tracks and leave the filler behind. Apple formalised the process with the iTunes Store and in recent years streaming has hammered the nail in the coffin by supercharging the consumption shift towards playlists.
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MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Listening Habits Of Streaming Music Consumers

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Mark Mulligan
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Chart Of The Week
Deezer
Although the relatively early stage of development of the streaming market means that most listening habits are not yet being changed, there are fundamental shifts emerging among streamers and subscribers that point to the future of music consumption: Subscribers are fickle listeners: 58% of subscribers report listening to individual albums and tracks just a few times while 60% are doing this more than they used to because they are discovering so much new music.
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