You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>If you want to know anything about how music surfaces today how to find it or how to create it you will find what you need right here.'</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - Joseph Menn</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Washington Post</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> writer</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'One of the best music books of the year</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>' - Neil McCormick </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Telegraph</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For the first time in history almost every song ever recorded is available instantly. Everywhere.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book charts what music's dazzling digital revolution really means for fans and artists. As a former data guru at the world's biggest streaming service Spotify Glenn McDonald reveals:</span></p><p></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What the tech giants know about you</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How they serve up your next song</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Whether fans can cheat the algorithm</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Whether jazz is dead and ASMR is the new punk</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Your chances of becoming a rock star</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Having analysed the streams of 500 million people McDonald explores what the data tells us about music and about ourselves from the secrets of russelåter in Norway to Christmas in the Philippines.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book will take you on a voyage of discovery through music's fast-flowing new waters. Includes 10 bonus playlists.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><u>About the Author</u></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Glenn McDonald obsessively collected CDs as a teenager but he soon realised the revolutionary power of digital media to make songs globally accessible. He started working at a US startup and soon became a data guru at Spotify. His website Every Noise at Once is a computational map of the world's music genres.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An ideal book for anyone who wants to know how Spotify Amazon Music Deezer YouTube Music and other music platforms work whether as a fan musician or music business insider.</em></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Buy the book and start reading</em></strong></p>