"Jazz... The music of unemployment." - F.Z.
Artists have quicker, easier and broader access to people than ever before. A large amount of artists wouldn't be artists if it wasn't for Spotify. Or at least they wouldn't be able to get much for their work. They would, back in the days, have had to go to a label and pay a huge amount for printing CD's and transport etc. A lot of money up front. Maybe the amount of CD's you ordered is sold, maybe they won't all sell and you're at a loss. Maybe you could've sold twice as many and you are in risk of being sold out and missing the hype?
Today you can sit and produce a track and upload it to Spotify and if it's good and gets discovered you get paid without further effort. -Easy!
Don't feel sorry for artists. If they are good they will make money. If they are not they won't.
Today good poor artists have a much greater chance of getting success than ever before.
Spotify and Qobuz difference
Thanks for the responses. I can see that if I'm aiming to 'prove' anything I would need to do what staticV3 describes. However all I really need to know is which service I should pay for, so I guess I can at least say that subjectively to me Amazon sounded better in a blind test. I just...audiosciencereview.com
Hi jsrheta,That is a preposterous statement. The road to musical success has always been littered with the corpses of outstanding bands and musicians who never broke through.
One example: Scott Miller. He was the genius behind the band Game Theory, which later morphed into the outstanding The Loud Family. Critically lauded, and criminally ignored. After years of unbelievably good songs and albums, but criminally ignored by the public, he took his own life in 2013. Read about him on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Miller_(pop_musician).
While, as usual, talentless hacks roll in the dough.
I can't even count the number of phenomenal musicians and bands I've heard, and followed, that crashed and burned way before their time.
But how do you exactly consume your discoveries. Can you walk us thru the process?Why wouldn't that be good? You can to listen to new artists that you have never listened to. Do you want to listen to the same thing all the time?
I guess for some people it's not good. But it's great for me. The more the merrier.
Dre also sold his headphone brand to a certain fruit company.I hate to keep coming back with but but. However, Dr. Dre and Jay-Z aren't just musicians, they are also producers and record label owners.
I'd happy to, but first help me understand why would it matter? How would that affect the discovery of new artists and music that one has never heard before? Does the process of discovering new artists changes the appreciation level?But how do you exactly consume your discoveries. Can you walk us thru the process?
Yup, he's also a businessman on top of it. His wealth is not a result of his own music alone.Dre also sold his headphone brand to a certain fruit company.
'music discovery'.. is this good? Something to be desired? What is the purpose of this discovery? What if you will discover another 20 in the next 10 days? Will you even remember the first 10? And when you say you have discovered them, is that means you have listened to one song? one of their albums in full? or skipping? Do you know how they look like?
But how do you exactly consume your discoveries. Can you walk us thru the process?
This is seriously bizarre. Are you just going to listen to the same 10 albums for the rest of your life or something?
Indeed, VERY VERY bizarre question and comment. Why the hell would anyone not want to discover new music and artist when you have access to nearly every track and you are paying a fixed monthly fee? And if one doesn't want to discover new music, then why not just stick to that 10 CD albums instead of paying monthly fee for streaming?This is seriously bizarre. Are you just going to listen to the same 10 albums for the rest of your life or something?
Regarding music discovery, before the internet you ‘discovered’ bands that record execs had chosen to push on radio and had chosen to sign. Life before Spotify wasn’t great either for a musician.
I would argue (obviously from a flawed perspective) that our music is on par with many popular bands. Yet we have maybe 50 listeners per month and it's virtually impossible to find us. If you don't have someone pushing and marketing your music, it's just not happening.
See if you can find "The Moderns" on your favorite streaming platform?
This starts a related but good discussion, in past conversations with other ASR members, one member said that music today is more "disposable" and the new generation of listeners don't sit down to listen to a full album (as if that is a terrible thing). I argue that is because music distribution has been digitalized.Regarding music discovery, before the internet you ‘discovered’ bands that record execs had chosen to push on radio and had chosen to sign. Life before Spotify wasn’t great either for a musician.
Instead you decided, F it, let me just listen to the entire album, since I already spent the money on it. Then you listen to the entire album again and again, because it cost you $15 and you don't have time to go to the record store to buy a different album, you end up listening to it for maybe a week or two.