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...Universal Music is the largest record company, controlling about a third of the world’s music....
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...Ditto the topic of healing. So the prospect of these two themes being catalysed in an album titled Madres, which contains a track called “How Music Makes You Feel Better”, rings alarm bells....
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...This basic issue applied to music streaming, transaction steering, watch-phone pairing, digital wallets, and so-called “superapps”....
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...And in recent years, the securitisation market has become a welcoming home to deals backed by everything from music rights to software companies’ private credit loans....
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...Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Google parent Alphabet and music streaming service Spotify are among the companies that have signalled plans to strike such a balance this year....
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...(My MySpace page, for example, once host to my dreadful mid-teen music taste and my even worse politics, is now just a series of broken links and inaccessible images.)...
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