Artists who came up during the streaming era do not make albums that stick.

was it never that high of a percentage?

Imagine listening to these bums when I can just listen to Da Drought 3

Your dads missing out on Wunna 😒

“wHen things are back to normal.” Stop using that bum ass excuse

This has always been the case

Streaming just actually gives numbers

When you bought a song on iTunes and played it years later or played a CD
that wasn’t tracked in the past

Now it is
That’s all there is to this

"In the first half of 2021, according to MRC Data’s report, ‘current’ music claimed just 33.6% of total consumption, down from 36.1% in H1 2020."

Damn

Some people are coping by saying "it has always been like that" when these numbers are getting worst every year. The music industry is in such a pitiful state right now.

I 100% do not give a sh*t

doesn’t mean anything

Streaming service adoption grew 9.5% last year

If you assume that generally music listening is a 1/3 to 2/3 split then a 9.5% increase in streaming service should result in a 3% decrease in “new music listening” because pure sales and etc are declining by that much

Obviously but this stat doesn't say anything about the future of music, it makes sense and would stay like this

See my post above

What's define as old music and new music in this article

Pretty sure that’s part of the reason too b. No need to be mad.

Was I talking to you?

18 months or older

I’m the only person itt that said that

This article useless then cause wouldn't u expect more people to listen to music older than 18 months more than newer releases ?

yes exactly lol

This is just a symptom of people moving to a style of music consumption (streaming) that actually accurately tracks what music people are listening to on a day to day basis

Obviously this couldn’t be tracked in the past w s*** like CDs or digital downloads - it could only track people who were buying NEW copies of old music

This COVID #'s?

they really hate to see it. Instead of wondering what's wrong with the modern music industry they will do all type of mental gymnastics to deny the obvious.

It’s just not physically possible to create completely original music anymore since we’ve heard all spectrums of noise already.

That's crazy because people sleep on old music that they weren't around for if it's not a popular ass album like Illmatic or w/e

older deep cuts that aren't on streaming >>>

Obviously there’s way more older music than music that dropped in 2021