How music on demand is killing the album

Name: How music on demand is killing the album
Uploaded: 2015-02-06T23:51:43Z
Duration: P421S
Description: To be able to listen to a favorite song, you used to have to buy a whole album. But the rise of digital sales and streaming music has unbundled the single from the rest of the record. What does that mean for the economics of the music industry? Hari Sreenivasan reports.

Clip: 02/06/2015 | 7m 1s

To be able to listen to a favorite song, you used to have to buy a whole album. But the rise of digital sales and streaming music has unbundled the single from the rest of the record. What does that mean for the economics of the music industry? Hari Sreenivasan reports.

Aired: 02/06/15

Rating: NR

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