developments in recorded music as our context. Digitization has expanded consumption opportunities by giving consumers access to … music industry tripled the number of new products between 2000 and 2008. We quantify the effects of new music on welfare …

The objective of this paper is to document the evolution of cross-border music trade patterns in this transition period … and to explain what drives digital music trade patterns. The shift from analogue to digital music distribution has … substantially reduced trade costs and has enlarged the choice sets of music consumers around the world. Using comprehensive data on …

Streaming music services have exploded in popularity in the past few years, variously raising optimism and concern … about their impacts on recorded music revenue. On the one hand, streaming services allow sellers to engage in bundling with … interest in music not generating revenue through individual track sales - unpaid consumption and deadweight loss - into …

Digitization has vastly increased the amount of new music produced and, because of streaming, has raised the number of … Spotify emerging as dominant major interactive music streaming platform, this paper explores the effect of Spotify's playlists … inclusion decisions on both the promotion of songs and the discovery of music by new artists. We employ four empirical …

Since the launch of the iTunes Music Store in the US in 2003 and in much of Europe in the following years, music trade …. Despite substantial growth in availability, the available choice sets of digital music have not fully converged across … often perceived as an obstacle to greater availability. However, other factors such as commercial strategies by music …

. While bias is inherently difficult to measure, we identify a context within the music industry that is amenable to bias … against women. Using data on Spotify curators' rank of songs on New Music Friday playlists in 2017, we find that Spotify's New … Music Friday rankings favor independent-label music, along with some evidence of bias in favor of music by women. Despite …