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Year after year, new releases lose ground to the back catalog. Nobody likes new [top40] music, because it's cynical manufactured crap.
I'll just be over here listening to IDLES, Yves Tumor, Mau p, Chris Lake, ARTBAT, Jon Bohmer, Flume, Jpegmafia, etc. etc. Lots of great music guys, and it ain't even hard to find.
Doesn't really address my point, does it?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/old-music-killing-new-music/621339/ -- Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking.
https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/music-catalogs-value-keeps-rising-could-it-change-the-face-of-the-entire-industry-1056229/
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/its-official-new-music-is-shrinking-in-popularity-in-the-united-states/
https://www.billboard.com/pro/catalog-boom-analysis-for-the-record/
You're arguing against a point I never made. Obviously it's hyperbolic to say "nobody" likes new music because 30 percent of revenue is going to new music. But obviously there is a major problem and the fact that there is still some good new music coming out does not address that major problem.