You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'One of the best music books of the year</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>' - Neil McCormick </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Daily Telegraph</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What if the song that would change your life is already out there - buried somewhere in 100 million tracks one skipped click away?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> former Spotify Data Alchemist Glenn McDonald opens the black box of music streaming and shows how it is quietly transforming what we hear how artists earn a living and what music means in a digital age. Drawing on years spent inside the algorithmic engine of Spotify McDonald reveals how playlists recommendation algorithms listening data and streaming royalties really work - and what they're doing to artists fans and culture itself. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Moving from the age of record shops and radio to Napster iTunes the iPod and the rise of Spotify this book is a sharp witty and surprisingly hopeful tour of the streaming era - from the economics of a fraction-of-a-cent stream to the strange new power of fan armies bots and chill playlists that never end.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Inside this book you'll discover:</span></p><ul><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How music streaming services turned buying records into exploring infinite catalogues - and why that changes what we value and how we listen</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What Spotify algorithms actually do (and don't do) why they're less like evil robots and more like very simple math and how they can still go badly wrong</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Why royalty systems such as pro‑rata vs user‑centric payments matter for fairness independence and the future of the music industry</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The hidden world of playlist culture - editorial playlists algorithmic playlists and the lists your friends make - and how they've become the new gatekeepers</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How streaming exposes inequalities in genre gender and geography - from Nashville country radio to global diasporas - and what more equitable data‑driven music discovery could look like</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The new joys of a connected world: global micro‑genres borrowed nostalgia weird subcultures and the statistical certainty that you truly haven't yet heard your favourite song</span></li></ul><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Written in clear elegant prose by someone who has handled the listening data of hundreds of millions of people </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is part music history part technology explainer and part cultural manifesto. It will change how you think about Spotify Apple Music YouTube algorithmic recommendations AI in music streaming royalties and the future of recorded music.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Scroll up click Buy now and start exploring why you have not yet heard your favourite song.</strong></p><p></p>