If You’re A Musician In 2024, You Want To Hear This

In today's episode I break down some data that was sent to me by my friends at ChartCipher. This is mind-boggling.

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[robkovacsmusic]

Another reason artists may be releasing shorter songs is for streaming royalties. A 2-minute song on repeat earns twice as much money as a 4-minute song on repeat. If you can write a great, short song that makes people want to listen again and again, you're going to earn more money than you would on a longer version.

[rendyandrian]

Few years ago, a famous guitarist is asked what the biggest different in music listener now and then. His answer is nowadays people are always busy. Not with their job or family responsibility but with their phone and social media. People no longer has time to sit, listen, and appreciate song. They always do something while song is played in the background. Sad but true.

[dbroche]

As music creators and songwriters I think it’s important to buck the trends. Be trend setters not followers. But more importantly, be 100% you. It’s the authenticity of the artist that truly connects to the audience.

[dennisgabriel]

I work in a music store, and we get lots of kids coming in learning to play an instrument. Guitar, piano and drums are the most common, but we also get students for woodwinds, brass, and strings well. It's really nice to see actual musicianship on the rise.

[larrycanepa]

I told my wife mid last year that I felt the pendulum was swinging back towards Rock music again. It just felt that way with some really good new Rock bands and the strength of catalogs from 'Classic' artists.

[freethinker]

I think its fair to say that corporate music jumped the shark years ago. Indie is the real scene people ought to be paying attention to. There is so much amazing music to be discovered there.

[chuckcassidymusic]

Now my future songwriting plan is complete: 6-minute songs, piano, profanity all over the place! Anything to not end up on pop charts! (I'll have to learn piano, though, I already know how to swear.)

[VexylObby]

I'm not sure if I could ever say music could change for the "better" or "worse". What I can hope for is that the music ends up serving its generations well in improving people's lives generally.

[BradGOlson]

Music, and music trends have changed sooo much. Of course, I'm a 65 year old professional musician who is stuck in the 60s-80s. Things you never hear anymore, or are pretty hard to come by on the radio (again, I'm old school in how I access music): instrumentals, guitar solos, TV theme songs that become hits, sax solos, horn sections. I miss them all.

[williamrunner]

I hope you're right Rick, I hate hip hop! It can't go away fast enough for me.

[georgesdelatour]

I’m no expert on country, but to me a lot of modern country is simply rock music in which the singer has a southern regional accent and there’s a certain narrative approach to lyric writing. I don’t hear a lot of prominent pedal steel guitar, country fiddle, 3/4 time country waltz tunes etc. Again, I don’t know the genre well, so I’m happy to be corrected…

[tomoverton]

I don’t know if you have heard this, (I haven’t read through the comments) this video received mention on national radio in Canada today. Well done!

[jonathantobin]

Guitar music is on the rise. Ive been playing in cover bands many years and more young people are digging us old guys.

[nickthequick]

"People are less interested in Hip Hop music" that's the best news I had today

[Pwecko]

What surprised me, after having listened to it numerous times over the years, was finding out that Tomorrow Never Knows by the Beatles was only two minutes and 58 seconds long. It always felt much longer. The Beatles really packed a lot into each of their songs.

[blackmax]

So I was just talking today to a producer friend who is very well respected and I said music is like fashion. You're going to see crazy colors but they don't last. Soon or a later we get back to the foundation. Nothing will ever replace blue jeans

[GavinProphet]

Solo rock musician here (been putting out music in bands for 10+ years) I JUST started releasing solo stuff and this up turn in rock trending has been so inspiring - DONT GIVE UP YALL 🎉

[markmallinder]

I for one, will be glad to see the back of HipHop “music”. Can’t believe how long people can keep listening to these songs which all sound pretty much alike.

[Brokenhill]

I think one thing to note on the 90s rock songs is that they often had a "radio edit" that was a bit shorter or the DJ cut the song off early compared to the full album version.

[maxhirsch]

One factor that definitely affected album length (and possibly song length as well) in the 90s was that it was still the early cd era, and with cds capable of storing nearly twice the length of music at standard cd resolution as a standard LP could store, a lot of rock musicians, at least, started releasing substantially longer albums than they previously had done in the pre-cd era.