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People who care enough about music to pay a monthly fee, surely are also invested enough to develop their own tastes? IOW, who pays for listening to "radio" (T
by vemv 7y ago
People who care enough about music to pay a monthly fee, surely are also invested enough to develop their own tastes?
IOW, who pays for listening to "radio" (Top 40) music?
There's an audience for Top 40 music, but they will typically belong to the ad-supported tier of Spotify, not the paying tier.
- Spivak 7y agoI exist as a counterpoint. I pay for Spotify because I have terrible taste in music, zero idea how to cultivate it, but want to listen to music when I do things. I pretty much just search a vibe and let some rando’s playlist take it away.
- flurdy 7y agoSame here, I'm not deep into music, but I have it playing in the background all the time. And I hate ads. So I have gone from buying 1 or less music CD per year to happily paying a monthly subscription for over 10 years. And mostly for playing songs from the 90s and current charts. Without adds and offline on my mobile. It is the hassle-freeness I pay for. Though the previously good suggestions and Discover Weekly has turned rubbish since my kids started to use my account on my ipad. Hurry up 2027 when my youngest turn 13 and they can all legally have their own Spotify acounts...
- dajohnson89 7y agoyou may not have sophisticated taste, but i suspect the top 40 fare played on FM radio stations wouldn't cut it for you.this is what op meant
- detaro 7y agoIt seemed like they used "top40" as a denigrating shorthand for anything that's not "interested in specific niches", given that was the context they replied to.