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Soundout has become popular for using online ‘scouts’ to rate tracks and help artists see if their track will do well on the open market. And due to its popularity has managed to raise $2million of equity funding. Although such systems could be useful, using such a cold tactic to see if a song will be successful is the kind of thing which will lead every artist to end up just like an X Factor winner.

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