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Thompson: 90% of music listening is repeat consumption
“90% of the time that we're listening to music, We're listening to a piece of a song that we've already heard before.”
Thompson: Half of top 21st-century movies are sequels or adaptations
“Half of the top 10 movies in America every single year this century are sequels, adaptations, and reboots.”
Thompson: Discover Weekly engagement dropped when Spotify removed familiar songs
“Spotify, when they were initially designing their incredible program, Discover Weekly, they initially wanted it to be entirely new songs. But a bug in the algorithm accidentally let through some familiar songs as they were testing internally. So they fixed the…”