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Chris Dalla Riva

Chris Dalla Riva is a musician from New Jersey who works on analytics and personalization at Audiomack, a popular music streaming service. He posts about music and data on TikTok at @cdallarivamusic. Check out his new EP You Know I Can Be Dramatic.

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February 4, 2023

One Song, Many Writers

How modern songwriting evolved into a game of aggressive credit—even for the people who didn’t technically do the composing.

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