Has new music gone down the tubes?


The demand for "old" music grew 14% in the first half of 2022 while the demand for new music dropped 1.4%. In the streaming world "old" music represents 72% of the market. Why does new music seem to be so bad compared to old/classic music?

I go though youtube sometimes and kids post videos of the first time they hear classics like the beatles, bob dylan, whatever and inevitable jaws drop. The music companies keep rereleasing old albums in new formats. Is it because todays artists just can’t "git er done"?

U.S. Music Catalog vs. Current Consumption

 

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Showing 2 responses by wolf_garcia

Music on the radio has aways mostly been awful as have most movies. Decade after decade. We only remember what we liked and (thankfully) forget the crappy stuff.

Go see musicians in the "folkie" (acoustic generally) club nearby as that's where some great young talent is working. And note that most pop music has always mostly sucked as for every Joni or Beatles or Little Feat album there was plenty of stuff that was really. There are some talented pop musicians out there but I'm not likely to hear much as I'm a jazz geek...that's a scene that's packed with brilliant young players if anyone cares to notice which, sadly, most people don't.