this going to hurt them a lot
Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it.
Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now.
The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work.
Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028.
This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators.
A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music.
“Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.”
Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵
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The woman I fell in love with and called my lover has left me. Now, you see, what I never confessed was that my father grew old, and I saw his grey hair on the days when he would go for long without a shave, and I’d be troubled by the realisation that he was slowly leaving us.
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You are in Nigeria.
Right now France and Nigeria have just signed a MoU to allow France to mine Lithium, Cobalt, & Copper in Nigeria.
Bc their access to Uranium in Niger has been cut off.
You defend a country trying to steal Nigerian resources ?
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Might be a Long read but ;
- First you have to adapt to staying with your laptop, terminals (axiom/trojan) seeing the charts, understanding entries, cause I assume a new person in trading would want to reduce their risk margin.
- Secondly, split your portfolio into the tiniest fraction in your learning phase (you’re not profit centric yet, just want to learn how to control your emotions while trading) trading is more mental and emotional. If you have 100 usd to gamble, you can take trades with 7 usd max, gives you enough room for failure.
- You need active gcs with guys better than you, this way you learn through their own pattern recognition cause yeah they have the experience, also if you can stress further, find their wallets, wallets do not necessarily mean you buy everything they buy, just use it for a point of confluence.
- You’ll fail at trading, the cue is to not give up (hence the margin for failure) say your first 10 trades in 2/3 days is bad, you’ve probably lost 20-40 usd out of your 100 usd port and it’s fair, still room for improvement.
- I cannot overemphasise how bad you need to sit with your laptop, the trading terminal, always waiting for calls in gcs wouldnt exactly help, also buying stuff you’ve seen similar lores run before, viral videos, funny videos, things you reckon the average trading mind can buy.
- infinite headloss but you still need emotional balance, and when your profits start reeling in don’t immediately increase ape size cause of thirst for more money.
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12 days ago, Premium was a thesis.
Since then, we have launched the first pSTOCK, opened the Token Factory, introduced Desk Auctions, added creator fee routing and Holder Rewards, expanded trading routes, made the flywheel auditable and released Curve Lab.
We built the individual rails.
V2 connects them into one capital lifecycle.
Demand for pSTOCK moves through the hookless Curve Desk and converts its inventory into ETH.
Creators launch markets paired with that pSTOCK. When those markets graduate, pSTOCK becomes permanently embedded in ecosystem liquidity.
That permanent liquidity creates eligibility for matching ETH from already-traversed Desk ranges to enter the Stock Reserve and accumulate the corresponding offchain shares.
So every layer begins feeding the next:
More Desks -> more deploys -> more graduations -> more locked pSTOCK -> more Stock Reserve eligibility -> a stronger bridge between onchain demand and the offchain stock.
The flywheel has not seen anything close to its real potential yet.
Big week for @prm_market!
