10 years of Spotify: should we celebrate or despair?

The music streaming service is a decade old on Sunday. Is it a utopian dream for listeners or a dystopia that pushes musicians to create monotonous music for little financial reward? The Guardian’s music editors make their cases

The year is 2008. Now You’re Gone by Basshunter has spent its fifth week at No 1 and you can’t get enough of it. Your options are as follows: head to the shops and buy the single on CD, which doesn’t feel very on-demand; buy it as a download, the quality of which is as flimsy as Basshunter’s subsequent career; navigate through a labyrinth of occasionally pornographic popups to download it illegally; or sit through Scouting for Girls five times until it comes on the radio.

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