When it comes to streamed music, only the famous few get paid and everyone else loses out

I ’m sad about something called Ghost Tunes, which was a download service founded by Garth Brooks. I only found out about it today, and the next thing I learned was that it shut down a month ago, and was absorbed by Amazon, which bought it last October.

Like Tidal, it offered musicians a bigger cut – 80 per cent instead of the usual 70 – and catered to artists who dislike how ...