Our cover feature gathers together the biggest stories of the year: from Taylor Swift not wanting her music to be free on Spotify to U2/iTunes struggling to, literally, give an album away – taking in, along the way, the push towards high-def audio, analytics coming of age, the big company sales and shut-downs, the growing power of playlists and the risky move towards (expensive) exclusives.
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