No, I clicked the adjust for inflation button. You do have a point re: population growth -- the per-capita spend on music is smaller than it was. But regarding

No, I clicked the adjust for inflation button. You do have a point re: population growth -- the per-capita spend on music is smaller than it was. But regarding artists, you're sort of making my point: there are certainly more artists around that address essentially the whole world, as opposed to just themselves or their local area. Playing an instrument hasn't gotten easier (even that is arguable), but mastering music (at a mediocre level, maybe) has gotten easier, and distributing music has gotten way easier (presumably eventually that should affect the revenue split between labels and artists). And yes, all those artists of today are in competition with the artists of the past. So there's certainly less money for each individual artist today, and there is more music available to me today, and I still don't have more time available to listen to much more of it. But you do have a point regarding population growth.