Yes, and that’s their biggest and the only leverage they have.
If new artists go different ways, and more and more of new music is supporting artist lives in a different — and hopefully better — ways, this cash cow could starve quite fast.
One question to see the potential of new music could be:
How much new music came out and what is its listening time compared to older music?
E.g. how many songs published in 2015 were played compared to songs before 2015? For 2014? For 2000?
If we stick to the rules made buy other we’re playing their game. If we don’t like it, we can come up with a new game, that ‘they’ are not playing.
Yet, this is – again – just one idea/concept by one person.
I’d prefer something even more drastic/disruptive. What about ditching this ‘us’ vs ‘them’ narrative. This always leads to aggression and saparation. But even the label people love music… why shove them out?
