Murder Was The Case: Is Streaming Killing The Rap Music Industry?

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Murder Was The Case: Is Streaming Killing The Rap Music Industry?

It’s December and there still hasn’t been a platinum album in hip-hop in 2014. Before Taylor Swift shattered records with her 1989 album, the music industry in its entirety went without a single project reaching the one million mark in sales. With Spotify recently releasing their 2014 streaming playback statistics, there couldn’t be a better time to debate the pros and cons streaming has on the music industry.

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