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> It's the only way people listen to music - there's nothing else It’s far from the only way people listen to music. I listen to music on FM radio way more tha
by sokoloff 2y ago
> It's the only way people listen to music - there's nothing else
It’s far from the only way people listen to music. I listen to music on FM radio way more than I do free streaming services (mostly Amazon music’s free tier) for the overwhelmingly majority (essentially all) of my music consumption, and have no user-paid subscriptions. Both are ad-supported and probably pay little to artists, similar to paid streaming.
- idiotsecant 2y agoYes, there's probably someone somewhere listening to pirate shortwave radio broadcasts, too. You're being pedantic. Most people do not consume FM radio as their main source of music.
- sokoloff 2y agoThe worldwide radio market revenue is about $35B/yr. I think that’s larger than the audio streaming market; the reference point I found for that was $25B/yr. Granted, not all radio is music (nor is streaming), but (assuming I didn’t get the research wrong) radio is larger, making it at least slightly weird to call it a pedantic argument that the larger of the two markets even exists as a source of music for people.