The Anatomy of a Revolution: How the Digital Single Rewrote the Music World
To understand modern music, you have to look past the sprawling tracklists of blockbuster concept albums and gaze at the humble digital single.
For decades, the music industry was anchored by physical formats. If you wanted a song you heard on the radio, you typically had to buy a cassette, a 7-inch vinyl record, or later, a bulky compact disc. If you didn’t care for the other nine “filler” tracks on that CD, it didn’t matter—you paid for the package anyway.
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