YouTube did not yet exist, Spotify had yet to be founded and CD sales had completely collapsed thanks to the internet. Yet Dick de Groot saw it all when he founded his own record company in 2005. Twenty years later, Be Yourself Music is running like crazy. “You only have one guarantee in this business: you never know how big a hit will be.”
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CD sales were in decline, but Dick started a record company: ‘People will always continue to listen to music’
Bytaketonews
Oct 30, 2025