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What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture
and while it did okay for us—it stalled near the lower end of the Top 100—it didn’t feel like a step forward or even an interesting step backward. It was a form of treading water, or responding to trends rather than doing anything new or interesting or even particularly real.
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson • Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
There is an overload of music. 60,000 songs are uploaded to Spotify every day. Over 20% of those don’t get streamed even once. The ubiquitous access to almost every piece of recorded music in history has led to a paradox of choice, promoting passive and playlist-driven music consumption and creating winner-take-all effects for the biggest artists.