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Is popular music getting worse?: Working musicians
$4,000 for a million streams I released an album last year. Twelve songs. Took me two years to write, four months to record. My best track hit 200,000 streams. That earned me about $800 before the distributor’s cut. After the cut: roughly $560. My studio time cost $3,200.... Is popular music getting worse?: Structural analysis
The room In 2023, ten writers had co-written the majority of Billboard Top 40 hits across pop and country. They worked in rooms — literally rooms on Music Row — where two to six writers assemble a track in a single session, each contributing a hook or cadence optimized for a... Is popular music getting worse?: The Story
Three chords, sixteen weeks Morgan Wallen’s "Last Night" was the number-one song in America for sixteen weeks in 2023. Three chords. No key change. Dynamic range of 6 dB — the loudest moment and the quietest are about as far apart as two people talking at slightly different...