Howie Singer, PhD is an expert on the implications of new technology in the music industry. In 15 years at Warner Music Group, he served as SVP and Chief Strategic Technologist analyzing services and companies that could enhance or threaten WMG’s businesses. As a Strategic Consultant to the Recording Industry Association and Beatdapp, he currently advises on products, services, and technologies related to Artificial Intelligence, streaming data analytics, and content authenticity.
Along with Bill Rosenblatt (another NYU Music Business adjunct), he wrote Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry that analyzes the history of disruptive innovations from the dawn of the phonograph to the current era of artificial intelligence.
Howie played a leading role in the transition to digital music delivery and, in 1996, he co-founded a2b music, a pioneering distribution service using AT&T technologies. Over his 20-year career at Bell Labs, he led teams developing retail and call center management software, speakerphones, cellular phones, and videophones.
Howie received PhD and MS degrees in Operations Research and Information Engineering from Cornell and a BS degree in Applied Math and Computer Science from Stony Brook University. He has been an Adjunct Faculty member in the Music Business program since 2018 teaching “Data Analysis in the Music Industry” and "Technological Transformation in the Music Industry."
Selected Publications
Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry
By Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt
Oxford University Press, 2023
ISBN-13: 978-0197656907