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Is Old Music Killing New Music?
The Atlantic ^ | January 23, 2022 | Ted Gioia

Posted on 01/23/2022 3:42:55 PM PST by Yardstick

Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market, according to the latest numbers from MRC Data, a music-analytics firm. Those who make a living from new music—especially that endangered species known as the working musician—should look at these figures with fear and trembling. But the news gets worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking. All the growth in the market is coming from old songs.

The 200 most popular new tracks now regularly account for less than 5 percent of total streams. That rate was twice as high just three years ago. The mix of songs actually purchased by consumers is even more tilted toward older music. The current list of most-downloaded tracks on iTunes is filled with the names of bands from the previous century, such as Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Police.

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To: Responsibility2nd

Not me.

People who only listen to radio.


81 posted on 01/23/2022 5:00:21 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊ࠢ࠘𐡏⁻ )
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To: luckystarmom

Record labels aren’t about the music anymore, they’re only about the Benjamins.


82 posted on 01/23/2022 5:00:56 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: dfwgator
Who listens to new symphonies, as opposed to works by Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, etc.

So true. And art died with the Impressionists.

83 posted on 01/23/2022 5:02:10 PM PST by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

So you don’t like music? That’s OK, plenty of people don’t.


84 posted on 01/23/2022 5:03:48 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: muir_redwoods
My own grown children favor the music I grew up with and are really into bands like Journey, Boston, and Steely Dan. Which is strange to me because they weren't even born when this music was coming out for the first time.

I know there's good new music out there but so much of what passes for "pop music" these days is incredibly awful.

85 posted on 01/23/2022 5:10:07 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 33 days away from outliving John Hughes)
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To: Yardstick
We lost a giant this past week
86 posted on 01/23/2022 5:14:22 PM PST by blam
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To: Yardstick

Most new music actually sucks. They write these songs that have lots of words then they end the stanza with one word like su oo uh oo uh oo un because they can’t figure out enough words to fill seven syllables before the word sun. Or they are line after line of nonsense versus that all end in the same rhyming sounds. Bed dead fed head red ed cetera. No imagination. Just stream of consciousness of how bad it is to be from a lower class background. There isn’t much to like.


87 posted on 01/23/2022 5:14:45 PM PST by webheart (I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didn’t help at all. )
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Hasn’t got a chance - doesn’t fit in the 3 minute time frame radio stations demand.


88 posted on 01/23/2022 5:15:47 PM PST by Stosh
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To: Yardstick

The problem is, times have changed. From invention of radio til a few year into the internet, people were glued to the radio and local stations and therefore when life events happened they remembered the tunes playing, and everyone was in the same boat, a collective experience, 10s of millions heard same tunes. Not happening anymore, they can stream only what they want when they want..now when life events happen its with streams of old tunes or just music they like, it’s not a collective experience anymore. Radios influence died on the masses, it’s over, there will never be a 60s-90’s/early 2000s again.


89 posted on 01/23/2022 5:17:26 PM PST by pangaea6
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To: Yardstick

“1) New music is great and those who disagree either don’t know where to find it or have a generational bias”

In the 40s 50s 60s 70s and 80s, you didn’t have to “find it”. It was -everywhere- all around you on the radio. You couldn’t avoid it.


90 posted on 01/23/2022 5:23:03 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Little Steven’s Underground Garage on SiriusXM has introduced me to lots of great new music. He highlights “The Coolest Song in the World” every week and while some are more appealing to me than others , but they’re always cool.


91 posted on 01/23/2022 5:23:14 PM PST by bigbob
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To: Stosh

They could trim part of it out. Anyway, there have been lots of songs over three minutes that got plenty of play. I remember a DJ telling me that he’d always play “American Pie” when he wanted a decent bathroom break.


92 posted on 01/23/2022 5:25:51 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: dfwgator

My dad was into Polish music, but I guess it would fit into the “old” category - kinda miss it myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1FJuswuJCw


93 posted on 01/23/2022 5:26:17 PM PST by Stosh
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To: JonPreston

Hard to find new music for your record player?


94 posted on 01/23/2022 5:30:02 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, though and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Yardstick

Don’t forget that the country’s demographics are also getting older.


95 posted on 01/23/2022 5:33:09 PM PST by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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To: gundog

It’s a Victrola, kid.


96 posted on 01/23/2022 5:34:34 PM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I was kidding of course - that particular “musical gem” never fails to amuse me. But speaking of songs that were off-format time-wise, I can remember going to FM stations when I was a kid to get the long-form version of “Alice’s Restaurant”, which if I remember correctly ran something like 17 minutes. No telling what your DJ friend could do during that if his station allowed him to play it!


97 posted on 01/23/2022 5:35:20 PM PST by Stosh
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To: ping jockey

Tried. That lead guitarist cant play lead. Just slapping hooks together in a Skynerd/Molly Hatchet mess. Pass


98 posted on 01/23/2022 5:38:12 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian ( 2022 - VOTE THE BUMS OUT —— ALL OF THEM! RE-ELECT NO ONE!!)
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To: JonPreston
Step up to a stereo system.


99 posted on 01/23/2022 5:42:17 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, though and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: setter

OK.

russian couplets while fighting (Outdoor Cossack Moshpit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQ0xnJyb0A

1.5 YO. Turn on CC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJpzcjFJT80


100 posted on 01/23/2022 5:42:45 PM PST by Norski (Luke 22:36)
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