But if it wasn’t Spotify and streaming numbers, I’d be looking at the radio charts. If it wasn’t the radio charts, I’d be looking at iTunes sales data. If it wasn’t the sales data, I’d be looking at other metrics. You want to get some kind of feedback of where it’s connecting with people.” He has a point: platform pressures, in the end, are just business-minded approaches to songwriting, amplified by data optimization.
