Keep Sweet: CRS 2023 and its Digital Music Summit opened the event at 8am this morning (3/13) with the "Sweet Streams (Are Made Of These)" soup-to-nuts overview of music services. Spotify Head/Editorial, Artist & Label Partnerships Rachel Whitney, Pandora Head/Country Programming Johnny Chiang and Amazon Music Head/Country Michelle Tigard Kammerer detailed their respective platforms' tools for independent artists, the role of playlisting in marketing, how DSPs use data and more. "There is a certain amount of gut," Whitney said as the panel drew to a close. "We really spend time listening to the music."