Deep-internet bubbles: How microgenres are taking over SoundCloud
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Deep-internet bubbles: How microgenres are taking over SoundCloud
If, at the start of this story, the great divide was manifest in musical taste and distaste, that too has begun to close, as musical genres bleed into each other and no longer provide the airtight identities they once did.
Rebecca Solnit • The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
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.