Almost 300000000. 00 people stream music via spotify each month that gives the Market Leader a detailed picture of uses listening habits today music lovers can also enjoy streaming music videos and concerts in their homes and on their mobile devices and these services are rapidly growing in popularity computer Game Developers are given a platform to harvest as well and spring us rep of travis scott to showcase the brand new trek live in fort myers a hugely popular multiplayer game. Is the big moment given recent hip hop fans have been waiting for action gunshy one virtual travis scott saying theres a multiplayer gaming fortnight to perform live in from the one to 12000000 players the largest crowd ever to attend a virtual concert like this. Take. For gaming the Music Industrys cross over the tracks to try to get groups in one mini games now feature cool certain tracks you need dance moves and virtual in game concerts because china im sure someone with. Interests on streaming platforms like apple music these and spotify dominate the music market today raking in huge sums of money and only a tiny fraction of that goes to the artists on some platforms they earn less than one cent per stream to make a decent living they need hundreds of thousands of place for example an artist would need 80000. 00 plays on the napster streaming platform just to the u. S. National minimum wage roughly 1400 u. S. 1. 20 place would be needed on apple music and over 300001 spotify and amazon. Can use issues make a living like that its tough but its not all black and white you know we met up with a german band who say despite the downsides there are benefits to spotify. The and ethnic have been with folk pop. For 11 years their albums feature german english and arabic lyrics and have made it into german charts at 1st they didnt want them his accounts part of. 45 spotify definitely exploits musicians and if you have an almost nothing 3 streams. Its not even enough for major artists to go by. Making an album is a lot of work and costs a lot to record. Some at 1st we didnt really like the idea of making your music available for free and people. Have played all over europe winning them in the oil fanbase today their music is on spotify after all with success their latest single happy from the new album has already been streamed half a 1000000 times about 250000 fans listen to their chins each month to ask what users can discover your music on spotify even if you dont belong to a record label. And if your music gets streamed a lot and recommended to other people then you might feature playlist thats what sway their opinions on them and welcome. Back to harrahs music is available on other streaming platforms too but 90 percent of their listeners come from spotify since signing up in 2015 hours music has been streamed about 25000000. 00 times in 78. 00 Different Countries streaming platform. Meanwhile also changing the way artists create music. Get of them was an overwhelming choice of music now if you get bored of a song you skip it i guess that the scourges artists from producing elaborate 10 minute tracks with 3 minutes solos and long intros so yeah on the people who are adapting to that. On average songs have become shorter over the years in 2000 the u. S. Top 100 singles tended to be over 4 minutes long but in 2018 the average length were just 3 and a half minutes why in part because of the 32nd rule applied by spotify and other streaming platforms it means only receive money if the song has been streamed half a minute or more this is changing how artists crafts songs long gone are the days when songs are long winded intros for example for more on that heres chris of a blast of Bourbon School of popular its hard to get my over one hits today follow with different formula from take just a beavers love yourself the song jumps right in with lyrics from the get go. This is a target and the listener knows exactly what the tracks about. Theres no time for an intro. The 1st few bars of a song are crucial they determine whether the listener sticks with it also gets to the next the vast competition for music has given many listeners a short Attention Span and so the 1st 30 seconds. I need just 20 seconds to never listen to the whole song no. Matter. The Music Industry started making money from streaming services in 2510 years later streaming about phones were already making 2600000000 euros in revenue and since 2018 streaming has become the biggest source of income for the Music Industry last year it made up 56 percent of global music revenue thats why artists are under pressure to make their music Available Online play lists are also a crucial part of these major streaming platforms if an artist is featured on one it can seriously was their streaming of figures and revenue but who curator these playlist. Popular me. As a consequence if i was promoted im playlets which drives up screaming thing is even further. Algorithms define who makes it as an artist today. So its a lists only contain popular songs this is based on certain metrics. A song will move up a playlist the more it can stream. But there are other play lists with a structure is more important songs are added in a way that achieves the rights musical art. Companies have begun to help artists get those songs on to play them to market them like repairs now for now owned by sound cloud musicians are now less dependent on music labels but even more so uncertain algorithms. This is something that pop professor marcus klein a criticises. Fortunately these days producing music is less about creating and more about calculation because algorithms calculate how many people like what and when they listen to. The it will Music Production is becoming much more of those numbers and less about cultivating a future for society because there. Is pop music no longer a revolutionary force well despite the criticism digitalisation is providing new scope for creativity like a video sharing app ticked off some artists even have a global hit song because of thick fog if their song features on one of the popular to talk challenger like then thats x. All told local brand with the get up all of viral sensations. Streaming services and social media platforms represent a great new way for fans and musicians to connect especially now during times of social distancing. We have a spring tour plan. With 26 or 27 concerts sort of information so that like all bands the tour was cancelled. On the issue because we just finished recording our latest album of it at the market and we were looking forward to going on tour with it. Instead to make a horror as a band member staged a concert on a rooftop in cologne live streamed it for all their fans unfortunately they had to been then band mates couldnt join them because of the knock down. The throat most important that funds get to see bands in a live context even if its online. So that anyone can you see its all over social media rights now. Streaming is a great way for artists to stay present even locked out james blunt recently stream to show from hamburgs elbert philharmonic home. And artists like billy eilish the Rolling Stones and green days but it Joe Armstrong lifestream performances from their own homes for the one will together at home Charity Event to on the health care workers. In addition to their Live Streaming. Published a music video made from 60 fan videos filmed at home in the clip has around 50000 hits on you tube. I dont want to feel. The i think a military only way to stay in touch with fans these days is by Live Streaming concert life. After thinking footage of past gigs Available Online and you know come. To will now take place in all with him this year provided not down. If not theyll just keep performing on 9. Ok so digital platforms are great for musicians to connect with fans and for fans to stream as much music as they want whenever they want but theres a catch companies are collecting vast quantities of personal data professor in the cauldron of the London School of economics explains moore. The way we sat or jumped in front of our record player was unknown to the Record Companies they were blind to that now theyre not the vision the market is today is a relation which is continuous as long as you are using the product the product will be tracking new. Companies constantly analyze our music listening behavior to keep us on platforms for as long as possible platforms like french streaming site do you need users get to play they should in theory as only hear music that they want to hear for thats we need to establish an ongoing relationship with them we have to learn what music to enjoy in a monday morning for example but not on a friday evening so. Some artists have launched exclusive Online Events like us soul singer erykah badu one of my favorite artists who created an interactive Concert Series the idea is that fans pay a fee to watch and then have a say what happens like which song will be played next streaming has made it extremely easy for us to consume music but also harder for artists to make a living so its on us to support musicians we care about for example by seeing their shots online or one day in real life. What do you think theres no one you tube facebook and d. W. Dot com thats good for moss this week. Lots of Homeless People come out be seen on the streets of japan. In tokyo love 4000 people used to spend their nights in internet cafes. Among the u. K. But then they can say is had to close because of the coronavirus. Someone can do how to be fine. Global 3000. Next on d w. Impressive and surreal. In india nature has been taking a breather. 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