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Not that I want to give them ideas, but what's so fundamentally different about music? How come services can produce exclusive games, podcasts, tv shows and ev

• lmm 4y ago
  It may just be culture. Tidal tried to be a music app with exclusives, and got a couple of big names, but people are used to being able to listen to everything on their preferred platform and get annoyed at artists who go for an exclusive. I think games have the same thing to some extent. I would note that there have been some "artists" showing up on Spotify's recommended playlists who haven't been heard of anywhere else, which are suspected of being their "store brand" (where Spotify have presumably paid some session musicians to record the song but keep all the rights).
• hutattedonmyarm 4y ago
  There are plenty of books which are released exclusively on Amazon and/or Audible. For music: Well they tried. Apple Music and Spotify had a little exclusives war in the beginning, but I think neither managed to grab enough that it mattered