Music is one of the strongest forms of story-telling, it also has strong utility: it's useful in bringing people together; it's beneficial in its cathartic power; and it can be profitable for rightsholders. Music, however, rarely managed to put those two powers together to create massive value in a similar way to other art forms. Perhaps because of the fleeting nature of audio, or because of its ubiquity, what created value was rarely the music itself, but instead the future potenti...
