Key Changes

Extensively researched and supplemented by interviews with Grammy-winning artists, producers, and executives, Key Changes provides an insightful perspective on the ways technology has fundamentally disrupted and transformed the music industry, throughout history and into the present era.

Howie Singer is an expert on music industry technologies who played a leading role in the transition to digital music delivery. At Warner Music Group, he served as SVP and Chief Strategic Technologist analyzing new business models and services. Since 2018, he has taught a graduate class on "Data Analysis in the Music Industry" at NYU. Howie spent the first part of his career at Bell Labs and AT&T where he co-founded a2b music, an early digital music start-up.
Bill Rosenblatt is a leading independent expert on technologies related to copyright in the digital age. As President of GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies, the firm he founded in 2000, he has consulted to leading media and technology companies as well as public policy entities worldwide; and he has served as an expert witness in intellectual property litigations on these subjects. Bill teaches Data Analysis in the Music Industry in the Music Business program at NYU.

1. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (Jerry Lee Lewis) -- Introduction
2. You Spin Me Round [Like a Record] (Dead or Alive) -- Phonograph
3. I Can't Live Without My Radio (LLCool J) -- Radio
4. Spin the Black Circle (Pearl Jam) -- Vinyl LPs and 45s
5. Rhymin' and Stealin' (The Beastie Boys) -- 8-Track and Cassette Tapes
6. Television Rules the Nation (Daft Punk) -- Television and Music
7. Zero-Sum (Nine Inch Nails) -- The Compact Disc
8. Don't Download This Song ("Weird Al" Yankovic) -- Downloads
9. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel) -- Streaming
10. Throw Away Your Television (Red Hot Chili Peppers) -- Streaming Video
11. You Took the Words Right Out of my Mouth (Meatloaf) -- Voice Interfaces and Artificial Intelligence
12. Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper) - Coda
13. Unchained Melody (Righteous Brothers) -- Afterword: Blockchain Technologies
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