FWIW, even before the Spotify thing, Neil Young has had a streaming subscription service that cost $2 a month or $20 a year for unlimited access to all of his music. I think it's been considered a success, unless that was just hype. It is a middle ground between play-by-album and $10 for everything in the world, but it's also something that presumably only worked because he's already been popular for decades.
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