I keep seeing videos about how "pop is dead" "hip hop is dead" and of course, the now venerable "rock is dead" and how catalog music is outselling new music and every record label is just surviving off the copyright for elvis and aging rock/pop stars from the 70s/80s. About how new music sales declining.
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>Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market, according to the latest numbers from MRC Data, a music-analytics firm. 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. But the news gets worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking. All the growth in the market is coming from old songs.is it possible we have exhausted all possible music at least in popular genres? that everything will be a throwback like Olivia Rodridgo larping as paramore or jack white playing the blues?
Is this just the spiritual exhaustion of late capitalism like mark F said? Or are we really done? Will people still be making led zeppelin cover bands 100 years from now?