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Click Track is about how technology is changing the music industry.

Click Track’s greatest hits

These are notable Click Track essays, categorized by their topic:

Market analysis

• NFTs won't save the recorded music industry, but they might save the live events industry

• web3 promised to help artists. Instead it stole their copyrights

• The #BrokenRecord movement's quest to "fix" the music industry (and why they are wrong)

• Podcasts are the new battleground between the music streaming sites and the record labels

Business profiles

• Merck Mercuriadis and his billion-dollar empire are the heroes that songwriters need

• Inside Audioshake, using AI to recreate lost stems for hit songs

• Inside tonebase, the Masterclass for music lessons

Music industry history

• Songkick's fall from grace: Most startups die of suicide. But Songkick was murdered

• Inside the rise and fall of the record store chain Tower Records: From $1 billion in sales to bankruptcy five years later

• The dark history of the jukebox: how the Mafia used murder to build music machine empires

• Robots as rockstars: how artificial intelligence is the future of making music