Buy every song in the world for €4 a month

Buy every song in the world for €4 a month

“Music should be a service, not a product. Instead of purchasing tunes, you would pay a small monthly fee for access to all the songs in the world – say 4 Euros per month. Recordings would be streamed to you when you want to any appliance – your laptop, mobile device, car, home stereo, via the Internet.

“Call it Everywhere Internet Audio. Every customer has the Me Channel and could slice and dice the massive musical database anyway you like – by artist, by genre, by year, by songwriter, by popularity, and so on. The Me Channel would know what you like, based on what you’ve chosen in the past. You could even ask your Everywhere Internet Audio service to suggest new artists that resemble my known favorites or to create a new playlist called ‘Mick Jagger’s current favorites.’

“Musicians, songwriters and even their labels would be compensated through systems that track their popularity. All the music would be pooled and using actuarial economics the total pie would be divided up according to the number of times the songs of a given artist were streamed. Technologies and companies already exist that can do this.”