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It’s clear that music sales, whether CDs or downloads, no longer tell the full story about our music tastes. YouTube is a more popular music player than you might expect and social media can influence what we end up streaming via services like Last.fm, Spotify and Rdio. MTV’s Music Meter aims to reflect this new landscape.

When major labels plan how to market an artist they refer to them as "product". Even though the lo-fi aesthetic is heavily stylised, there's something troubling about a bunch of suits calculating the impact of adopting that kind of imagery for their releases.

Two Door Cinema Club performed “I Can Talk” and “Do You Want It All” on Last Call with Carson Daly.