{"id":7147,"date":"2022-09-26T12:39:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/26\/has-streaming-made-it-harder-to-discover-new-music\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T12:39:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:39:07","slug":"has-streaming-made-it-harder-to-discover-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/26\/has-streaming-made-it-harder-to-discover-new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Has streaming made it harder to discover new music?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Services such as Spotify and Apple Music give us access to the entire history of popular songs. But has that access made us lazy listeners? And could TikTok or TV really help us rediscover our passion for discovery?<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Kate Bush\u2019s Running Up That Hill unexpectedly became the most popular song<\/a> in the world. After it was used on the soundtrack of the Netflix sci-fi series Stranger Things, the streaming figures for Bush\u2019s 1985 single rocketed by 9,900% in the US alone. Something similar was happening wherever Stranger Things was available: by 18 June, three weeks after season four of Stranger Things premiered, Running Up That Hill was No 1 on Billboard\u2019s Global 200 chart, which, as its name suggests, collects sales and streaming data from 200-plus countries.<\/p>\n

It became a big news story, big enough that Bush \u2013 no one\u2019s idea of an artist intent on hogging the media spotlight \u2013 was impelled to issue a couple of statements and give a rare interview<\/a>. That was partly because it was an extraordinary state of affairs: the upper reaches of the Global 200 are usually the sole province of what you might call the usual suspects \u2013 BTS, Bad Bunny, Adele, Drake et al \u2013 and not a world that plays host to tracks from critically acclaimed 37-year-old art-rock concept albums. And it was partly because the unexpected success of Running Up That Hill seemed to say something about how we discover and consume music in 2022.<\/p>\n

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\nServices such as Spotify and Apple Music give us access to the entire history of popular songs. But has that access made us lazy listeners? And could TikTok or TV really help us rediscover our passion for discovery?
\nEarlier this year, Kate Bush\u2019s Running Up That Hill unexpectedly became the most popular song in the world. After it was used on the soundtrack of the Netflix sci-fi series Stranger Things, the streaming figures for Bush\u2019s 1985 single rocketed by 9,900% in the US alone. Something similar was happening wherever Stranger Things was available: by 18 June, three weeks after season four of Stranger Things premiered, Running Up That Hill was No 1 on Billboard\u2019s Global 200 chart, which, as its name suggests, collects sales and streaming data from 200-plus countries.
\nIt became a big news story, big enough that Bush \u2013 no one\u2019s idea of an artist intent on hogging the media spotlight \u2013 was impelled to issue a couple of statements and give a rare interview. That was partly because it was an extraordinary state of affairs: the upper reaches of the Global 200 are usually the sole province of what you might call the usual suspects \u2013 BTS, Bad Bunny, Adele, Drake et al \u2013 and not a world that plays host to tracks from critically acclaimed 37-year-old art-rock concept albums. And it was partly because the unexpected success of Running Up That Hill seemed to say something about how we discover and consume music in 2022. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Services such as Spotify and Apple Music give us access to the entire history of popular songs. But has that access made us lazy listeners? And could TikTok or TV really help us rediscover our passion for discovery? Earlier this year, Kate Bush\u2019s Running Up That Hill unexpectedly became the most popular song in the …<\/p>\n

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