Well ... one could always become the next Vanilla Ice without the cream with a one hitter ;-)
Is Old Music Killing New Music?
I ran across this Atlantic magazine article on another music forum. It asks the question if old music is killing new music. I didn't realize that older music represents 70% of the music market according to this article. I know I use Qobuz and Tidal to find new music and new artists for my collection, but I don't know how common that actually is for most people. I think that a lot of people that listen to services like Spotify and Apple Music probably don't keep track of what the algorithms are queuing up in their playlists. Perhaps it's all becoming elevator music.
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+1 @jssmith An insightful post. |
As the parent of a 20-something year old musician, my son says if there is a music industry, it's nothing like it was when I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s. FM radio was king. If your music was played on the radio, people went out and bought the physical media. That meant that a few executives decided what new music people heard. There are tens of thousands of hours of new music uploaded to the internet every week. How do you listen to all that and say there are "no good musicians" anymore? That's not true. There are so many who never get championed by someone already famous to promote them. If you want your music heard, you pay big money for your music to get promoted. Also, young people rarely listen to the FM radio. My son doesn't listen to FM radio. |
I’m a boomer that grew up in New York and was a fan of WNEW FM and got to see all the great concerts. I got interested in Jazz while still in High School. Bottom line for me is that I enjoy several genres of music and try to keep current using Sirrus XM. |
Man, finding new artist and music has never been easier. And such a huge variety. While I fondly remember sifting through album bins for half a day in my younger years the fact is, and while I still enjoy it, I just don't have that kind of time anymore. So I find having a few minutes to read through threads like this makes it easy to find new artist and music...read post, select highlight, Command C, Qobuz, search bar, Command V, enter, new artist, click the Heart and my next listening session is set. |
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