Apparently, an artist gets Paid US$0.006 for each track that gets played on Spotify and that more than 20,000 tracks are uploaded each day. It also seems that artists will record albums with thirty or forty tracks, each of two minutes or so, because they are paid once a listener has played a track for more than thirty seconds.

When people are used to downloading hundreds if not thousands of tracks, who will remember the first one they bought?

I remember the first single I bought. Forty-five years ago, in …