Topic summary
Music market
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Music industry.
Media
When music is digitally downloaded or streamed, there is no physical media other than the consumer's computer memory on their portable media player or laptop. For this reason, artists such as Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, Kings of Leon, and others have called for legal changes that would deny social media the right to stream their music without paying them royalties. In the digital and online music market of the 2000s, the distributor becomes optional.