We look at Spotify's Billions Club, and discuss how some people are trying to discover the must unplayed music. 

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‌Show notes:

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<li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jan/17/no-dylan-but-loads-of-coldplay-what-the-songs-with-a-billion-streams-on-spotify-tell-us-about-music-taste-today" rel="nofollow noopener">No Dylan but loads of Coldplay! What the songs with a billion streams on Spotify tell us about music taste today</a></li>
<li><a href="https://vintageobscura.net" rel="nofollow noopener">Vintage Obscura</a></li>
<li><a href="https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2025/01/16/21609/" rel="nofollow noopener">Lefsetz Letter: Apple Music’s Per Stream Payment</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://amzn.to/4hyApJL" rel="nofollow noopener">Steel Pulse: Tribute to the Martyrs</a></li>
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Episode #301: The Freddy Mercurization of Dylan

Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn discuss music and musicians, and how we listen to music, whether it be analog or digital, downloaded or streamed, audio, or video.