A few years ago, I drew this sales funnel to highlight where each element in Beyoncé’s business fits in her strategy.Parkwood made this all possible. pic.twitter.com/PDDycqgpGs— Dan Runcie (@RuncieDan) September 28, 2022

a close friend of mine works in the music industry, so I have takes on music streaming 🧵Spotify has never turned a profit in any year of its existence, this means Spotify's shareholders are already subsidizing artists.streaming services saved the industry from literal /1 https://t.co/CaSYct4TS6— Ariele 🌐🏗️ (@weatherdai) March 10, 2024

people were still buying music and the mp3 ecosystem that apple’s ipod marketing was driving millions of people to embrace was an incredible promo platform for indie stuff. everyone was going for it because success meant something: you could do 33k first week on warp. not anymore https://t.co/rE1pS46TP3— jaime brooks ☭ (@elite_gz) May 23, 2023

Last night one of the AI developers behind that project that was ripping off living artists’ styles sent me a bunch of DMs(mostly omitted for length). He blocked me immediately after I responded and called me a moralist because I care about artists rights lol pic.twitter.com/7lMOoJVkJi— RJ Palmer (@arvalis) August 15, 2022