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It took a couple decades, but the music business looks like it’s okay again | Concurrent Media
Music sales in the first half of the year were up 8.4 percent, to $3.4 billion — the industry's best performance since the height of the CD era. That boom is fueled entirely by the growth of paid subscription services. This year's numbers include Apple Music, which didn't exist a year ago but has 17