How did this sentence make it into the article: "In turn, the $41 million people who pay to use services like Spotify was $1.6 billion."? It doesn't even read properly.

(I think they mean "In turn, the 41 million people who pay to use services like Spotify generated $1.6 billion").

In my view, the real problem is the music labels. Hopefully the future lies with smaller and less malevolent labels, or even no labels at all.