Title:How Stockholm Became Global Leader in Music-Tech Author: Staff Reporter Date: Thursday, June 9th Click here to read this article Summary: For most people who listen to music, it is most likly that a Swedish country helped make or start that comany. A common music company that people may have heard of is Spotify. Sweden started Spotify and now people have this app on their smartphones and computers. Along with helping music comanies Stockholm also helps to provide music electronics and new firms to help people manage their music rights. Stockholm has one of the most competitive groups in the world. They helped make an app for the iPad that was for creating music. More than 500.000 people downloaded this app. People for this company say it is fun to work here because people are very cooperative and willing to put ideas together. Thoughts and observations: This article was very interesting to me. I didn't think that Sweden would be this big into music. It seems like something that the United States would be big into. Most of the ways that I listen to music are made or connected to Stokholm in some way. Sweden helped make Spotify and is connecting in helping with Pandora, another app that I use to listen to music. Another think that surprised me was how many people said that they can share their ideas and use them to help create these apps and electronics. In American it seems that we can only have a leader in a group and we have to listen to what they say, not contribute our own ideas. Related to culture: Music has been around for a long time. People have changed it and made many different styles of it. This shows how it goes from folk culture to pop culture. These people that work for this company and many others are making a job out of this. I know that my generation especially listens to a lot of music. They try to make it appealing to us and others. With these advancements in technology, we can listen to folk music and appreciate it. We can also listen to music that we like.