"If a single button is enough to break the relationship between a creator and an audience, then that relationship probably wasn't as strong as we thought."
"When everybody has the music, the music itself no longer separates one service from another. This is starting to make streaming look a lot like radio."
"We have a scale that few companies in history have reached, a business that is healthy and compounding, and opportunities only we are positioned to pursue."
Borrell Associates projects that figure will climb considerably over the next four years as the industry undergoes what it describes as a "great reshuffling."