The music industry in 2021. A few insights…

Michael Whalen
5 min readJan 1, 2021

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Without out a huge preamble or some clever introduction about the sucky year that was 2020 and the hopefully less sucky year that 2021 could be, here are some fairly general and pretty specific thoughts about the music industry and some trends to watch for as we start the new year:

  1. The popularity of podcasts will continue to cannibalize music streams worldwide. What??? You say… Yes…

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Michael Whalen

Emmy® Award-winning composer, record company executive, copyright expert, dad, dog owner and CrossFit newbie