I don't even know what points op or the other op trying to make.

Of course streaming music makes it easier to find new artist and consume more music, and for artist to release more music in excess.

but it's also true that current music genres, lets say the obvious one, mainstream hip hop, has taken a massive dip in album quality and cohesiveness due to streaming.

Thats your opinion

If theres a ability to make a poll list for people to vote on here, others will agree towards the opinion that theres a dip in quality cause theres obviously is one.

I think that has more to do with people being stuck in 2015

the most convenient and most accurate way to discover new music on spotify is their ‘release radar’ playlist which gives you new songs based on what you already listen to. features like that are cool

damn you talking about streaming the best thing ever created for music and you can't even revisit quality albums 5 years ago?

Doesn't streaming pay less in general to artists while the companies and labels get the majority cut?

Deadass dude you gotta accept that music isn’t an absolute thing where „5 years ago everything was better/worse“ its up to each listener to decide what’s good. You don’t decide for other people what’s good and what isn’t. That’s blasphemous.

I’d imagine artists get way more now considering back then they had 0 leverage to decide what kinda deal they got

iight i'm bout to make a thread.

Streaming is good but the playlists suck

streaming ruined music

keem

Fans and business ruins art

Streaming the worst thing to ever happen to music. Before streaming you couldn’t have artists like Youngboy turning out dogshit albums every other month. And there were FAR fewer people making 30+ song albums. When they did, it was an artistic moment. Now music just about getting the most plays. If you got 1 or 2 songs on your album that “slap” to the average Joe, ppl will save 1 or 2 songs and keep streaming them and you get your sales. Music industry today is about dropping an album with 1 or 2 good songs, not dropping a good album. Look how much more competitive the Hot 100 is compared to the Billboard 200. Full length cohesive projects are far less commercially viable in the age of streaming.

I love streaming! I can listen to my 5 favorite artists as much as I want! They put in so much effort and get to make the music we really wanna hear!

yes they do! it's great cuz they put in all that work, I can stream the album 5 times, and they don't even get a dime for it! it's just amazing isn't it!

I love keem

It made music more accessible to the consumer but that’s the only good thing about streaming.

There is a reason why there hasn’t been a legit superstar since streaming became popular. The industry is way too deluded, with so many releases every week it’s harder for people to really engage with an new artist. Also it’s something paying for music or doing the time to download illegally that gives a fan a sense of loyalty to an artist.

Streaming hurt music more than it helped.

great for consumers

terrible for artists

do you think they should take streaming away or limit streaming? like say you can stream the singles, but you have to buy the full album? tbh I think since we have streaming, it would be insanely hard if not impossible to see if there would be any benefits to taking it away and going back to how it was before the streaming era (before 2015 basically)