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Re: Apple Music on Track to Overtake Spotify in U.S. Subscribers

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> Music is typically a passive form of media That is only true of the past 20 years or so of the music industry's history. I would sit and listen to music on my own, or with friends in a non-passive setting - every day as a kid. That was only 15 years ago. Tell a musician in an orchestra that music is only listend to passively. It's so unbelievably offensive to the art, and so remarkably untrue. > You can listen to m…

I never said music was only listened to passively, "typically" was what I aforementioned. Typically we are driving to work, working out, cooking while listening to music. It's not too often we are at venues where it is indeed an active activity. Kids are probably listening to just as much music (I have younger siblings in grade school, n=2) but they're also more pre-occupied nowadays with other activities while consu…

Obviously, if people had to choose what kind of music to "listen" to while they play video games (ugh), they would be more likely to choose cookie-cutter house nonsense, rather than Anthony Braxton.

Re: Apple Music on Track to Overtake Spotify in U.S. Subscribers

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> These two entities are merely soulless peddlers of the Big 5 Rubbish - the vast majority of music on both platforms is not released on any of the big 5 record labels. Apple Music has so many playlists featuring underground artists and labels. Spotify Discover Weekly never gives me any big 5 music. The only time people get "peddled' the big 5 tracks is when they want to listen to them.

You know for a fact that the only reason either of these music services exist is because the Big 5 are in on it. Their catalog is what carries the services, and is what makes them profitable. There is no Spotify or Apple Music without the Big 5. You cannot say the same of Bandcamp.

Why is that a bad thing? It's a positive that the big 5 are enabling smaller artists labels to have distribution to new listeners.

I love Bandcamp for downloading WAV files for DJ purposes but as a streaming service, it just isn't that great simply because of the lack of breadth of the catalogue.

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