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good reminder that platform holders like spotify and then labels hold almost all that revenue and artists see barely any of it. This has been true forever but the addition of spotifies and apple musics in the mix just removes more money from artists in this equation.
So over 49 years, it totals less than 1 year of the US military budget.
I couldn’t find explaination about “digital license” and “mp3”, if I buy music on Bancamp or Steam, where is it counted ?
Digital License: commercial use, such as with video game osts, movie commissions, or streaming service licensing fees from record labels.
MP3: pay-to-download services.
Low-key wish cassettes would make a comeback
They sort of are. A lot of hardcore shows I go to always offer cassettes at the merch table.
Even most artists offer them on their websites these days. Lady Gaga and Lana Del Rey offered them for their most recent releases,
Yeah cassettes never went away when it comes to punk. It’s a cheap way to distribute your music in physical form as well, which is a big part of why it’s so present in punk and indie music.
Surely CDs are both cheaper and easier, though?
Good point, they probably are. A cassette can fit in a pocket though, it’s like a greeting card and usually comes with a download code. CD’s are just lame :D I don’t know man.
I never bought an album on tape. Only ever used it for boot legging. And I sure don’t miss searching for a particular track on tape I would want to play.
I bought a cassette this weekend at a smaller local concert. They only had cassette and CDs. CD just feels meh to me and I also don’t have a CD drive around anymore, so I went with the tape. The format is really cool for smaller bands as you don’t need much effort to release them. Just design the small piece of paper and you’re good to go. It’s also better to carry around during the concert compared to being stuck with the huge-ass vinyl in the pit lol.
If possible, I prefer to get a vinyl, but I get it that it’s a pain in the ass for smaller semi-professional bands as it’s expensive a fuck to release on vinyl. So cassette it is, now I only need to get my hands on a tape deck lmao.
also don’t have a CD drive around anymore, so I went with the tape.
you don’t have cd but you have cassette player? 😮
Yeah a relative has one for me that I now have to install
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That increase of ad supported steaming makes me not hopeful for the future.
Now seems like the perfect time to either pirate because you know your favorite artists ain’t getting hardly anything of the billions from streaming services. That, or go direct through the artists own service they set up themselves. Either way, it always is a good day when you can just say “No!” to the large music companies or companies invested in music salesin some way or another.
I just bought a record from an artist Merch booth at a concert last weekend. Feels good and I got it signed.
There was an event going on in the large downtown park in my hometown and there was a local band who I would have totally bought one of their CDs, but my card wasn’t working. I would have totally spent $10 to support them.
Am I the only one who is totally confused by the lower plot? How is the data distributed among the positive and negative y axis? Is the negative portion supposed to be negative annual revenue? Why are CDs then in the positive and negative at the same time. I desperately need more labeling or explanation please. It sure looks nice, but I’m completely at loss…
How is the data distributed among the positive and negative y axis?
It’s symmetrical. There is actually nothing negative shown in that graph. The graph could be flat at the bottom on the axis that it would change nothing. However, it looks like soundwaves.
The width is proportional to the revenue.
So the axis with the year isn’t actually 0 pr something else? Its just how much revenue was made in total (2000s were the time with most revenue) and how much each media contributed in a funky way of displaying it?
It would have been less confusing to have vertical lines rather than an x axis however they wanted it to look like a soundwave. However even though I am an electronic musician who works with soundwaves I didn’t notice the metaphor until reading the comment here.
Thanks for pointing that out. It is a bit like the distribution on a violin plot then. But it still is weird how the colors are distributed and albeit I think it does indeed look nice, I think this plot shouldn’t be in this community…
This is an even more confusing answer!
I don’t know how to but this more clearly. The distance between the top and the bottom of the coloured strip at any given year; the thickness; represents the annual revenue.
This is actually a pretty common format for representing the evolution of parts in a total, because you can clearly see the share, the combined revenue and the total revenue over the years (that’s the area). It is just that this one has been made symmetrical because it is easier to follow and just more pretty.
I heard the other day that cassettes are selling again.
It’s seriously niche. Nobody is buying cassette over vinyl or CD for any reason but aesthetics or a gimmick or novelty.
But that’s what my car plays
Get a discman and a cassette adapter. I did it for years, it’s great to be able to skip tracks instantly, choose tracks, etc.
This only seems to cover the US?
BRING BACK PHYSICAL MEDIA.
