Utopia Music is a Swiss Music fintech company leveling up the Music Industry with data-based solutions. Listening to music used to be a social activity. Since the rise of the internet (but already with the introduction of the walkman), listening to music has been individualized more. Lately, there has been a trend towards more listening together, or social listening.
What does that trend mean for the way we listen to music, for our idea of what music is, and what are the changes in the music ecology that could be fueled by this trend?