News Mar 20, 2026

Hopeless Records boss: Streaming ‘fails the middle class of musicians’

Independent label Hopeless Records was a founder member of indie think-tank ORCA, and now its president Louis Posen has taken to its Substack to argue that music-streaming “saved the industry but stifled the artist”. “By shifting the metric of value from the album or song to the time spent listening

Originally published by Music Ally
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Hopeless Records boss: Streaming ‘fails the middle class of musicians’