How Platform Capitalism Devalued the Music Industry

This essay was originally commissioned by online electronic music magazine and community platform Resident Advisor for its 2010–2019 End of the Decade run of features. Upon reading the essay, Resident Advisor chose to cancel the project citing issues with the essay’s position and focus on major shifts in the standards of music consumption and criticism in the 2010s alongside declining album sales in an increasingly oversaturated digital market. Over the course of a decade the music industry widened and diversified from traditional written artist profiles and reviews…