From the invention of the phonograph in 1877 to the boom in streaming services today, the music industry has had to constantly adapt to emerging technology. In this video, we explore whether music can continue to reinvent itself to survive. Photo: Liliana Llamas/WSJGoogle’s subscription music services are struggling to grow, almost a year into a revamp of its flagship YouTube Music, according to people with knowledge of its user numbers. Subscriptions across Google’s paid music offerings have been essentially flat over the four most recent months of available data, these people said. The stagnation...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 08, 2019 17:37 UTC