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Of all the things to happen to music this century, this is the most important — and worst | Globalnews.ca

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This weekend marks the finale of a 10 -part Ongoing History of New Music series on the 100 most important things, events, moments, people and tech seen in music since the beginning of the millennium .

It's been an interesting journey going back through the last 25 years .

What’s the most important of all the items on the list?.

For consumers, music has become a low-cost, low-margin commodity that requires plenty of money to make but provides little compensation in return.

Many of those same people aren’t paying for their music at all because they use Spotify ’s free ad-supported tier.