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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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@ghdprentice , a lot in common but just a different order of distraction... *G*

While "...love, love me do..." (No...) was making the girls giddy, I was into Coltrane, Pentangle, and the Fugs.  Overlaid with the Firesign Theatre to make some sort of sense of it all....

Older brother was listening to Mitch Miller and Herb Alpert. :- l

I go to the market of late and either marvel or grin at the latest in Muzak Muzic, aimed at the 'us', whoever we is and 'soap bubble' in the aisles....

Run Away to Mars -TALK came up when the 2B$ lotto was pending...which I thought would be a way to avoid the pending onslaught to the (un)lucky one, but not currently available as yet.

Drain Bamage....Audio Version: Love it, can't shake it.... ;)

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