Music industry fears AI eating existing revenue, struggles to imagine new markets it could create
jordiponsdotme · x · 2026-10-03
A music-tech observer argues that music industry analysis of AI focuses almost entirely on how it will hit current revenue streams, rather than imagining new revenue lines AI could create. The real shortcoming, he says, is a failure to envision use cases where AI expands the overall market instead of treating the disruption as zero-sum—an echo of how streaming and sampling reshaped the business before.
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