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> 100,000 albums being released every year, which means in our lifetime we'll hit 1 billion+ Even assuming a lifetime is 100 years, that would be only 10 milli
by extra88 11y ago
> 100,000 albums being released every year, which means in our lifetime we'll hit 1 billion+
Even assuming a lifetime is 100 years, that would be only 10 million albums. There would have to be 10 million albums released per year to get to a billion in a lifetime.
I think a lot of albums don't take much effort to produce, EPs from garage bands and bedroom turntablists probably require less effort than even a trashy novel. Of course a decent number of those 300,000 new books are very low-effort affairs as well.
- cba9 11y ago> There would have to be 10 million albums released per year to get to a billion in a lifetime. Sorry, I left out that part of Kelly's estimate of 1b songs is that album rates will also continue to increase at the historical rate. It seems improbable to me that we could really hit 1.1b songs by 2060 (it's such a mindboggling number), but on the other hand, the world keeps getting wealthier, making music keeps getting cheaper, and the appetite and dreams of people for making music seems to know no limits...