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Tidal VS Spotify

Most of us have changed the way we consume music, swapping physical formats such as CDs for streaming services such as Spotify and Tidal. Instead of ‘owning’ music – either physical or digital – we’re now content to pay a monthly subscription fee to access music in the cloud, allowing us to play any song – without actually buying it.

In the past decade, sales of music CDs have dropped by 80 per cent in the US alone, while the popularity of music streaming has rocketed. It’s now the industry’s fastest-growing revenue source, with an estimated 68 million people worldwide paying for a music subscription service.

THE STATE OF PLAY

Music streaming is big business and there are number of services vying for your

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