MySpace lost all of its content before 2016. Due to a faulty server migration, every photo, song, and video that was uploaded to this once-popular social network was accidentally deleted. That accounts for 50 million songs from 14 million artists like Lily Allen and Arctic Monkeys. Of course, many of these have backups that are probably on Spotify by now, but those that didn’t are now lost forever.
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Digital music sales surpassed physical sales in 2014. Since MP3 players arrived, digital music sales have been slowly rising. Once Spotify came out in 2008, it seemed the age of physical music was over. In 2014, download sales and subscriptions made $6.85 billion, while physical sales were just barely under it at $6.82 billion.
Spotify was fined over $5 million for breaching GDPR in 2023. (Medium)