>>127095880 (OP)
Old Music started outselling new music in 2015, that was over 10 years ago. This was before Covid, AI and Orange Man, so this was just a longtime coming.

Music just isn't a central part of culture any more as it was for much of the 20th century.
Music 1910-2010: it was a good run.

>>127095880 (OP)
It's another

>meat is bad, artists are cancelled, physical media are disappearing, protests are bad, different opinions are marginalised and treated more strictly, the state is polarising people towards war, poverty is criminalised, price gouging is wild, bad working conditions are getting more widespread and harder to resist
>WHAT THE FUCK, WHY AREN'T PEOPLE CONSUMING LIKE IT'S THE 1990S?

>>127095880 (OP)
His picture contains a hint as to why.

>>127095880 (OP)
His article's picture contains a hint as to why.

>>127095895
>Old Music started outselling new music in 2015

>>127095933
I don't get what this is meant to prove. You can stream old music you know?

>>127095880 (OP)
the song of the summer is Ordinary (6 weeks #1 already), you're welcome retarded journos

I've said it before and I'll say it again
Thanks to the internet, music has become extremely accessible and abundant and far less centralized, which is a good thing. Back in the 90s you were pretty much just stuck with the same 20 or so radio stations owned by the same 4 media companies and that's where you discovered new music. Today the music industry is far more democratized. The age of the Superstar is over, and the industry as a whole actually resembles its Tin Pan Alley roots where music was just a bunch of local scenes and acts (they all recorded in new york but that's besides the point because they were all just literal who's from random parts of Europe and the US which is the point I'm making here)

>>127095954
> His 2025 single "Ordinary" peaked at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, where it remained for multiple weeks, and also topped the charts in several other countries, including Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Damn, maybe I'm just getting old and out of touch. How do people even discover new music and musicians now that radio is dead? It feels to me like these artists just come out of nowhere and suddenly everyone knows who they are but me. It's been like this for the past 5 years now.

>>127095908
Maybe it's for the best if we stopped listening music altogether

>>127095958
You must be seriously stupid or an industry/hedge fund plant to claim this.

>>127095880 (OP)
The song of the summer is Manchild by Sabrina Carpenter.

>>127095976
>How do people even discover new music and musicians now that radio is dead?
Tiktok. But radio is still alive though.

>>127095976
Radio has been replaced by playlists like Spotify's Today's Top Hits, Rap Caviar...etc, it's actually not that different from before.

>>127096034
>The song of the summer was supposed to be Manchild by Sabrina Carpenter.
ftfy

>>127095995
Based

>>127096043
*and the aforementioned TikTok is kinda like MTV to use a boomer reference

>>127096034
good morning sir

>>127095995
Music is objectively concluded. We are all just here as nostalgists.

>>127095880 (OP)
Everything is just a replica of the 80s or the 90s. Popular music is stale.

>>127095895
That’s not what The Guardian is complaining about.