I.B. on Beats

WELL CURATED: Last week’s debut of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre’s Beats Music, culminating in a wildly successful party on Friday night, was the polar opposite of Spotify’s U.S. launch in 2011, which went down with no sizzle whatsoever. Spotify is now viewed as the ugly duckling of streaming by the music business, the result of its arrogance, absence of marketing and opaque royalty system. So says our own I.B. Bad, whose latest missive on the biz issues you should care about, can be found here. (1/31p)

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