The Internet doesn’t change that, it just adds scale and speed to the equation. This is why in giving everyone access to all music does not result in the Long tail happening. We have 6.5 m songs in the music catalogue, last week and consistent with all previous weeks 52% of music listened to on we7 came from 100 artists and only 22% of tracks in our catalogue get touched each month.
via There’s No Long Tail On we7; Surprised Or Not? – hypebot.