The article avoids the nasty questions of who wins ( gets paid ), just focuses on what gets played.
(spoiler, Prog is not mentioned )
Sort of topical with the Spotify IPO today and all that sort of stuff.
what genres have benefited the most from the streaming era of music
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Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
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Hip Hop--where that I'm getting old thread...
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I had to look up trap. Sorry that I did. A sound that I associate with loud car stereos.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
Prog is a sub-sub-sub genre of rock and rock is a loser.Originally Posted by markwoll
So, one could infer that prog is a loser-loser or a loser-loser-loser.
you're welcome.
P.S. I am in 'the business' and I had to look up trap as well....
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www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
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...Look up "trap".....yeah, make that 3 of us....never heard that term before.
G.A.S -aholic
there's also "prog metal" and metal was a winner
metal is the monkey wrench in everything. hard copy sales are down except in metal. metal is obscure but gets a lot of streaming and has extremely dedicated fans. metal is angry but its fans are the happiest. metal is like making a theory on stars and then finding it and cursing it for not following the theory...
"Alienated-so alien I go!"
which puts it under metal, not rock. Is my best guess.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
but it is arguably where prog turns up
"Alienated-so alien I go!"
Despite being presented as a quantitative comparison of music genres, I found the article very to be a very vague and confusing what's-hot-what's-not piece. Treating rock and metal as segregated entities should provide a clue that this hasn't been thought through. Everything else I've read about young music service users has pointed out that they don't have the kind of "Disco Sucks" genre loyalties that prevailed during the big label/big radio era.
streaming services other than YouTube, Bandcamp, Soundcloud in a better world, would die.
Spotify pays the artist next to nothing, yet their CEO is a billionaire.
I actually am warming up to Soundcloud
"Alienated-so alien I go!"
The nasty questions are the important and relevant ones.
Music Modernization Act? the problem this may have even if it could help artists out, is it may never pass since it requires not only the House and Senate but the lunatic in the Whitehouse to sign it.
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