Between the late 1990s and the first decade of the following century, the global music industry found itself in the midst of a seismic shift: suddenly, the sales of CDs dropped. From 2000 onward, the global recorded-music market lost about 40% of its value over 14 years. Unauthorized file-sharing spread,recorded-music revenues fell sharply. Did young people abandon music listening? Didn’t they love music altogether anymore?