![]() ![]() Old music is dominating new music these days.Īs with most problems, there probably isn’t a single root cause for this. All the growth in the market is coming from old songs. But the news gets worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking. Those who make a living from new music-especially that endangered species known as the working musician-should look at these figures with fear and trembling. music market, according to the latest numbers from MRC Data, a music-analytics firm. ![]() Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. Ted Gioia crunched the numbers and the results are astounding: There could be a get-off-my-lawn nostalgia thing going on here but the data shows I’m not alone. There aren’t many new artists I like so I mostly end up listening to older music. As I’ve gotten older the part of pop culture where I’ve fallen behind the most is music. ![]()
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