“More music is being released today (in a single day) than was released in the calendar year of 1989”: How the music production industry has taken note of the huge number of self-releasing artists

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With the ease at which musicians can not only create and mix, but distribute and self-release their tracks, it's unsurprising that the quantity of music now being put out into the world is significantly higher than it was a few decades ago. But, when compiling a recent deep-dive feature, we were quite surprised to discover just how big that margin has become

In our long-read investigation into the growth of subscription-based software platforms, our writer Adam Douglas spoke to music business economist Will Page, who is the former Chief Economist of Spotify and UK performing rights agency, PRS for Music. He told us, “More music is being released today (in a single day) than was released in the calendar year of 1989”.