The Entire History of Spotify

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A short video essay about the history of music streaming, Spotify, and the evolution of music.

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[Amplifimusic]

please god, bring me back to CD'S

[SproutyPottedPlant]

I’m so glad I was born before I had to keep paying each month to access my music on a boring, unrepairable glass slab and got to experience vinyl, cassettes, Minidisc and CDs! 😀👍

[MutleeIsTheAntiGod]

CDs were really the perfect medium as far as storage, accessibility, and clarity. I love streaming/ download and have a spotify premium, but a company being able to just remove a song because the band is out of line makes streaming a bad deal for me, not to mention times when you have no network. Always keep a copy of the shit you love, you never know when it will disappear.

[basemusic]

Bro, I'm only 14, and I've both bought CD's, and listened to music on an iPod, and not when I was young either...

[MutleeIsTheAntiGod]

Also would like to point out CDs are near master grade quality (after the first few gens) and if you rip to a lossless format you'll have a higher quality digital file than any streaming site (besides a bandcamp download in WAV or FLAC)

[Ketobbey]

Thanks for the history lesson. I have not looked into the money the service makes in around 10 years. But I have my own music published there. 400 listens has netted me $1.20 AUD. for anyone that cares to run the numbers.

[AmonMusic]

The Entire History of Music Distribution should have been the title. Enjoy watching these videos, while doing light work.

[demetter]

Shocked me that you're only at 8k with how well edited your videos are.

[rafiuddinshah]

I came here from Reddit. Your friend shared this video. You are doing great job .

[brendanhoffmann]

I love Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music. It makes it so easy to sell and stream your music. I've been releasing albums at $5 a pop lately, one time fee to distribute everywhere. I think I've got 5 or 6 solo albums out now. My first recording device was an old Tascam 4-track from the 80s. It used Chrome oxide tapes. I got it when I was 16 and used it until I got into recording music with computers. I think it cost $150 in 1996, a bargain at that time. I was talking to an old friend not long ago and he was saying that he illegally downloaded my albums! I told him where he can stream them for free though and now he can listen to way more music. Lol, I laughed so hard! I always buy albums on iTunes when I really respect the artist and want to make sure they're fairly compensated.

[static-san]

Soooo much skipped over, but understandably so.

CDs are probably never going to completely go away, but they are definitely reducing in marketshare. Look at any big electronics retailer and see how much floor space for CDs has been lost in the last decade. This is really obvious in the Kpop industry: 10 years ago it was possible for a top-level group to sell over 1 million CDs. Now, 60, 000 is a really good run.

[duprie]

You left out the by far most important advantage of CDs, the thing that made everyone want them instead of records and cassettes: the fantastic upgrade in audio quality that they offered. Compared to vinyl & tape they just sounded amazingly clear. Skipping and shuffling were really just gimmicks. However it wasn't until around 1990 that CD players really became affordable enough to be competitive with the average boombox or cheap hi-fi system. That's when I bought my first player after 5 long years of waiting for them to become affordable for a typical teenager with a supermarket job after school. But we'd still rip our CDs to cassette for on-the-go music. Then by 1995 portable CD players were cheap enough and anti-skip had become reliable enough to switch over. In 2000 I switched to Mini-Disc recordable, in 2004 I bought my first proper MP3 player and in 2010 my first smartphone and that's where the story ends, for now.

[Subzearo]

Streaming music is great, sure, but the era of physical music was certainly not "the dark ages".

[theboyss]

tapes and analog formats are different

[Thutchinson]

Any specific reason to leave iTunes and the iPod out of the history of the digital revolution? Like lime wire pro is a minor footnote compared to how impactful Apple was to digitizing and monetizing digital music in the 21st century.

As for Napster, you can’t emphasize how revolutionary it was. Especially when you consider that heavy weights like Metallica led the fight against it.

But we’ll produced video non-the-less.

[BlurredTrees]

Saying we were in the dark ages for music is so incorrect. It was way way better. You had catalogues of music to choose from and everyone had their own collection. It was affordable. Everyone had tons of physical copies of music with art work attached. Now what do we have ? Playlists? It costs money for plastic bags at the grocery store but everyone’s music is free? Means it’s worthless. They’ve devalued something we all love. It hurts consumers and musicians alike. And we still all pay. Just now we get nothing.

[drakehasbula]

spotify in 2024 sucks not gonna lie they did all they say they wouldn't kinda sad.