>>19173008
music aimed for and primarily consumed by men will always exist at some level, but it's disappearing from the top level of pop culture relevancy and with that comes market share and sales, and with the loss of that it makes it harder for those kinds of acts to perpetuate or find success.
physical sales are dominated by pop girly music, it's not as much of a blowout as streaming but it is still primarily that sort of music. anything else are the exceptions. the era of it being mostly weird music nerd guys being into collecting physically is over, the vinyl bubble burst, now stans of pop artists buy 10 copies to drive their idol's numbers up.
https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-official-best-selling-vinyl-albums-and-singles-of-2025/
indie music is primarily made by and for men, and the most successful of these artists can make a living, but this would be the musical equivalent of saying things are fine because MLW and GCW and DPW are mostly consumed by men and their top guys can eat.
bands like metallica and oasis and such can still sell out stadiums but these are entrenched legacy acts that got in before the door closed and the market changed. there's not really any new groups these days with a primarily/overwhelmingly male fanbase doing that. the labels won't give them their push because they don't see dimes in it.
