Kanye West proves streaming services have made music mutable – Axios, Axios

We tend to think of our favorite music as unchanging, but streaming’s rise to becomeour dominant form of consumptioncould begin to erode that norm.

Why it matters:Music’s move to the cloud means that changes – sparked by creative, legal or other issues – can now easily be pushed out around the globe in a matter of seconds in a way that was impossible when the industry relied on CDs and vinyl records.