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It’s not about listening to something new; it’s about the wave of hype and promo you do around each release, it keeps you relevant and gives you something to ta
by shakezula 6y ago
It’s not about listening to something new; it’s about the wave of hype and promo you do around each release, it keeps you relevant and gives you something to talk about, keeps you fresh in peoples minds.
- tyingq 6y agoI get that side of it. But it seems to dismiss the listeners that don't care for any of that. The jist seems to be that they want to deliberately lower pay outs for older stuff even if it's played a lot.
- mantap 6y agoThis only works as long as everybody else isn't doing it.
- shakezula 6y agoThat’s objectively untrue, because in the music industry today, everybody is doing this.
- jeffbee 6y agoThere must be a niche for artists who record so rarely that each of their albums is accompanied by a 10000-word thinkpiece in the New Yorker.
- shakezula 6y agoThis is basically Tool, as someone else pointed out in this thread, but it’s not a reliable or sustainable model for 99.9999% of artists.