Summer Anthems
This song currently holds the Spotify record for the biggest single-day streams of a hip song. It recently overtook Drake and Lil Baby's "Girls Like Girls".
What is "Not Like Us" by Kendrick Lamar?
A new type of record deal was introduced after digital music.
What is a 360 Deal?
A digital optical disc data storage format.
What is a Compact Disc (CD)
An analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.
What is a Vinyl Record?
Streaming services that receive most of their profits.
What are Advertisements?
This Steve Lacy song was popular on social media over the Summer of 2022.
What is "Bad Habit"?
Which of these label departments have changed since the introduction of digital music?
a) A&R
b) Promotion
c) Sales
d) Finance
c) Sales
A wireless technology used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices.
What is Bluetooth?
A recording technique that resulted in single audio channel playback.
What is a monophonic recording?
The artist with the most streams of all time on Spotify.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This Eminem song was the No.1 single of 2002 for a total of 12 weeks.
What is "Lose Yourself"?
This major label pulled all their music from Tik Tok earlier this year.
What is Universal Music Group (UMG)
In what year was the first MP3 player released?
a) 2001
b) 1999
c) 1998
d) 1995
c) 1998
A compilation of favorite pieces of music recorded onto a physical medium.
What is a Mixtape
A peer-to-peer audio file-sharing website that started in 1999.
What is Napster?
The first song to reach 1 billion views on YouTube.
What is"Gangnam Style" by PSY?
In a 360 deal, what determines a record company's level of involvement in deals outside of making records.
What is Active and Passive Interest?
The first music editing software created.
What is Soundstream?
What you have to do in order to edit a tape recording.
What is cutting the tape?
Which of these is the payout rate for YouTube Music?
a) $0.008 per stream
b) $0.004 per stream
c) $0.01 per stream
d) $0.001 per stream
a) $0.008 per stream
This song, released in 2001, became the first ever song to be downloaded digitally.
What is "Head First" by Aerosmith?
The reason why before digital music, artists needed labels to be successful.
What is the democratization of music?
This audio file format stores uncompressed high-quality audio.
What is A Wav file?
How many minutes can a single record hold without compromising sound quality?
a) 60 minutes
b) 45 minutes
c) 55 minutes
d) 50 minutes
d) 50 minutes
This streaming service erroneously added U2's album "Songs of Innocence" to every one of its users' profiles in 2014.
What is Apple Music?