Why legacy acts such as Metallica, ACDC, PinkFloyd, & more are joining the streaming game
Their reasoning varied, ranging from disputes over paywalls and royalty rates to the artistic sanctity of an album as a whole.
But as digital sales overtook physical, and as streaming increasingly supplants digital sales, nearly all of those holdouts have relented. Often they’ve chosen splashy debuts: Led Zeppelin paired a Spotify exclusive with the platform’s major brand expansion into 20 new countries in 2013; Pink Floyd premiered its 1975 power ballad “Wish You Were Here” on Spotify in 2013 and promised to release the rest of its catalog once the song was streamed 1 million times.
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