Yes, there’s too much music. Here’s further proof.
In the Olden Days, even the biggest record store could stock no more than 100,000 titles without going broke maintaining that kind of inventory. But in the age of streaming, there are no
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Too Much Music
There is officially TOO MUCH MUSIC out there. Here’s proof.
In the old days of physical music formats — CDs, vinyl, tapes — a collection was considered big if you had more than 100 of anything. Completists and obsessives might have upwards of
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Here’s a stat that proves that THERE’S TOO MUCH DAMN MUSIC OUT THERE!
Streaming music technology is fantastic, almost magical. If, 20 years ago, someone suggested that we’d be able to instantly access virtually ever single song ever recorded, they’d be laughed out of the room
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How much more can the music streaming business grow? Well…
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Back in September at a music conference in Singapore, Sir Lucian Grainge, the CEO of Universal Music Group, stated that 100,000 new songs were being uploaded
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There’s so much music to stream that people are bailing
Once upon a time not that long ago, the supply of music was limited. We relied on record labels to filter through everything and then record stores, radio stations, music magazines, and later,
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A failed experiment in listening to too much music
Anyone with an Internet connection can instantly access somewhere around 40 million songs from all eras of recorded music history. That’s a lot. Way too much for the average person as this article
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How Unlimited Data Storage Made Content (Like Music) Worthless
How’s that for a headline? It’s part of a story in The Guardian on what they called “the iPod effect.” Choice is good. But unlimited choice is changing our appreciation of what it
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The End of Free Music?
An interesting opinion piece that appeared at Hypebot: Do we create too much content? Does the world need a filter? “Every 2 days, the world creates as much content as we did from the beginning of
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A Must Read: Quantifying the Statement “There’s TOO MUCH MUSIC”
If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember when having a hundred albums or CDs in your music collection made you a Big Deal. That was plenty of music, enough to keep you
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