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From The Smart Set: "Last year, more songs were streamed on any single day than were downloaded during the entire year. Sales of physical albums and downloads are in free-fall, and the rise in vinyl purchases isn't enough to reverse the larger trend. Even with the massive increase in song streaming — which rose 83 percent in 2016 — the overall economics of the business are dicey. Music revenues are still far below what they were in the last century. Musicians are suffering under this new economic model. But they tend to blame everything on the rise of digital music and the internet. In their opinion, the internet turned songs into data, and data just ain't sexy. Even worse, data is easy to steal, to share, to pirate."