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by ketzo 1315 days ago
You can't launch a new service without exclusives. Exclusives are much less effective in music than they are in TV/movies.

1) There's so much more producer variety in music than in video, even at the top of the charts.

2) Music listening habits are very conducive to variety. In the time I watch a single Marvel movie, I could have listened to songs from 10+ different record labels.