I was listening to Business Wars and they said something that grabbed my attention: one of the main reasons why Sony created the PlayStation is because they understood how big the video game market was getting and they understood that a new entertainment avenue would really hurt their music business.

Basically the thing here is that every new entertainment avenue that pops up takes away from the control music has in society as that’s valid as much for video games as it is for social media and Youtube. A lot of people who would obsess over music and artists back in the day spend their days now absorbing content from video games, youtube creators, IG/Twitter influencers, etc.

That’s why nobody will ever touch prime MJ or prime Beatles for example, music as a whole has just way more competition in the entertainment world than it had in the 80’s and 90’s. Ofc this isn’t the only reason btw, but it’s one of the main ones.

Btw go listen to the Business Wars podcast if u have some free time, pretty amazing listen especially their Amazon vs Walmart series.

Yeah that and Social media.

There's less of a phenomena when artists can share what they're doing every single day.

MJ on Instagram would’ve been goat

nba youngboy in '69 would be jordan going for his 9th ring

Michael Jackson on Twitch

Constant IG lives of moonwalking and vocalizing

Michael Jordan flexing on the Gram on the golf course
Goin on IG live with his gambling
“Who bets I beat this sorry nigga”

no def no cause social media promotes music

no

Btw this means that as time goes on and we find new creative entertainment pockets, artists will become smaller and smaller

And if we ever find a new potent entertainment option that’s only relying on the hearing part of things, it may be time to say goodbye to music as a whole

whatever you see on IG you could’ve heard on the radio

op this is all extremely general information b

i think its well understood theres more stuff now

labels need to realize that they have to diversify their artistry now and actually invest into talent rather than putting all their eggs into one star

So because people like video games a lot? That’s the reason the music industry is suffering? That’s why some artists won’t be as popular as the most popular singer of all time?

Lmao ok

why do all your threads feel like u lowkey dont like music

Examples?

I also just am a partisan of progress. Whatever happens to the entertainment world happens, it’s progress.

the podcast op is reffering to probably made some nice salient points but the actual thread is super general

like yea i guess a cereal will never be as popular as corn flakes were in 1954 were either

Music and Video Games are not exclusive really

You can listen to music and play a video game whereas other forms of media like television, movies etc don’t really lend itself to that

The two aren’t going to step on each others toes that drastically

Add podcasts in op title too tho

replaced music w podcasts for my commutes and cause most podcasts episodes are like two hours long it takes up all my music listening time in the car

tbh never got into video games and prolly never will now that I’m old af already

all my friends play this s*** everyday tho to this day

nah he’d be a little sperm cell in someone’s nutsack

The first rapper gamer hybrid that is nice at both is gonna be the number 1 artist ever

Of all time