Moby licenses every track on Play. Ker-ching!

1999 and beyond: Number 34 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicFor advertisers and film-makers, using popular music as a soundtrack has long been shorthand for modernity. And thanks to vague or nonexistent lyrics, electronic music can mean almost anything to potential consumers.Moby's fifth album was the first to license each track (Bodyrock, Honey, Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?) to an ad, film or TV show and what began out of necessity – the album stiffed on re...

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