Is Music dying?

Mr Peabody said:
I've been streaming for a few years now and have been checking new releases every Friday, it's my thing, what you show is a drop in the bucket compared to even just last year.
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Okay if you say so. Fact is streaming is killing the music industry and many artists are foregoing streaming with their labels.
 
There are pros and cons with streaming. I think its a net positive. For consumers, having millions of CD quality or better songs immediately available for a few bucks a month is amazing. I wish artists got paid more for streams. I'd happily pay more if it went to artists. On the other hand, I've discovered dozens of artists through streaming that I would have otherwise never heard. In many cases, I've bought albums by those artists and/or show tix when they are in my area. I think a lot of folks have this experience, so it cuts both ways. I don't think many folks would walk into a record store and buy an album by an artist they had never heard. I understand that some don't care for streaming-there is something for everyone.
 
Kramer64 said:
There are pros and cons with streaming. I think its a net positive. For consumers, having millions of CD quality or better songs immediately available for a few bucks a month is amazing. I wish artists got paid more for streams. I'd happily pay more if it went to artists. On the other hand, I've discovered dozens of artists through streaming that I would have otherwise never heard. In many cases, I've bought albums by those artists and/or show tix when they are in my area. I think a lot of folks have this experience, so it cuts both ways. I don't think many folks would walk into a record store and buy an album by an artist they had never heard. I understand that some don't care for streaming-there is something for everyone.
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Only Qobuz pays the artist a fair royalty fee. To with that is probably why people are not finding new material for streaming on lesser platforms. I find that Qobuz, Radio Paradise, IndieX FM and my trips to Josey Records in Dallas help me find new music. Josey Records has listening stations and while browsing I wear out Shazam with the music they are playing over their very kick ass stereo system in the store. Great selections of new and previously loved music.
 
Kramer64 said:
There are pros and cons with streaming. I think its a net positive. For consumers, having millions of CD quality or better songs immediately available for a few bucks a month is amazing. I wish artists got paid more for streams. I'd happily pay more if it went to artists. On the other hand, I've discovered dozens of artists through streaming that I would have otherwise never heard. In many cases, I've bought albums by those artists and/or show tix when they are in my area. I think a lot of folks have this experience, so it cuts both ways. I don't think many folks would walk into a record store and buy an album by an artist they had never heard. I understand that some don't care for streaming-there is something for everyone.
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When I bought albums I sometimes bought on either the store owners recommendation or friends, sometimes it works sometimes it don't. Other than new releases on Friday I do find new artiests that were added to playlists. This is an area Tidal could improve on.
 
RepublicOfTexas69 said:
Only Qobuz pays the artist a fair royalty fee. To with that is probably why people are not finding new material for streaming on lesser platforms. I find that Qobuz, Radio Paradise, IndieX FM and my trips to Josey Records in Dallas help me find new music. Josey Records has listening stations and while browsing I wear out Shazam with the music they are playing over their very kick ass stereo system in the store. Great selections of new and previously loved music.
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Qobux is first in paying artists but they have a different way of paying so it's not exactly apples to apples. To their credit they are the only ones that audit. They pay the record company or rights holders then they inturn pay the artists per their contracts. Tidal is actually second.

Whether you find new music depends more on the user interface than anything to do with how much they pay to artists. As well how good the algorithm is. I suspect some of them may turn to AI which I predict will make things worse opposed to better.
 
Mr Peabody said:
Qobux is first in paying artists but they have a different way of paying so it's not exactly apples to apples. To their credit they are the only ones that audit. They pay the record company or rights holders then they inturn pay the artists per their contracts. Tidal is actually second.

Whether you find new music depends more on the user interface than anything to do with how much they pay to artists. As well how good the algorithm is. I suspect some of them may turn to AI which I predict will make things worse opposed to better.
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Qobuz? Well they pay and pay better that's all that matters..... AI will make it worse for sure. I only use it at work for engineering questions (company AI not CPT or that crap) Also for summarizing meeting notes and lectures.
 
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