Is Old Music Killing New Music?

@clearthinker and @infection 

The author of the article doesn’t give a starting point for when they think "new music" starts. To me anything from the year 2005 and forward would be classified as "new music". I think that is around the time streaming started taking off and downloads had already surpassed physical sales.

Streaming killed the video star.

When the younger music shows some talent it is found. Christone "Kingfish" Ingram and Quinn Sullivan come to mind instantly. For me new music begins in the 1980's, that should give a perspective on how selective I am.

Things change. But you do need to stand up and dance every now and then. 

I would ask what that 70% number represents. If it represents sales then I believe it. The young generation listening through their phone or $10 bluetooth speaker’s do not purchase music. They are content listening to what ever the server spins next. This is the issue when you start to reference a percentage, you can make it mean anything you want by omission of how you got there. Weather forecasters will will tell us their is a 40% chance of rain. Why not tell us their is a 60% chance it won’t rain? Because we would not check back again and again to see if it will rain snd they have commercials to show us.

@yyzsantabarbara ,

Thanks!  I’m still not into streaming yet, but I still enjoy hearing new and new to me music.

All the best.

JD