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Streaming turned the collection into a subscription

Listeners stopped owning the files and paid for access instead The model spread through the 2010s and came to dominate recorded music revenue. Payment moved from a price per song to a per play allocation of pool money. Playlists replaced the album for much everyday listening. It sits in Mondo's music collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Listeners stopped owning the files and paid for access instead. The figure is taken from Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a music fact?: Yes. It sits on the Music shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.