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  • Jan 19, 2025
    Botney

    nobody cares about visuals. people do multitasking now and can't focus on one single thing

    Yeah white teenagers don’t.

    We who care about soulful music do.

  • Jan 19, 2025
    Botney

    nobody cares about visuals. people do multitasking now and can't focus on one single thing

    Nobody cares about visuals yet the US just had an attack over not using TikTok for 12 hours

    And no you cannot isolate “visuals” to music videos cause that’s not how this or my argument works culturally speaking

  • Jan 19, 2025

    Streaming is built anti-visually and most people listen to music via streaming, the effect of not watching music videos is a result of THAT, not some intrinsic apathy towards music videos amongst people nowadays

  • Jan 19, 2025

    s/o all my boricuas its time

  • Jan 19, 2025

    Remember: when music videos were booming on YouTube it was also because A LOT OF THE GENERAL WESTERN POPULACE was listening to music on a simple click and play basis through YouTube, and a lot of the time, through watching those videos. Much of those people went to streaming cause it was the most convenient on a simple click and play basis

    Now I do think this trickled into a sort of “artistic depression” in regards to mainstream efforts towards the music video experience, and while that may lend to some greater cultural disenchantment with watching music videos, this is much less of the cause for the decline in the cultural popularity of music videos

  • Jan 19, 2025
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    BRAVE

    Major labels need to just merge the social media experience with the music streaming experience. F*** it, launch a streaming service on a social media app so that the listening experience can be the ideal audiovisual experience that music listening should be in the current age. I’m talking it has a TikTok/reels/shorts type display of songs in an album.

    You can do album mode or music video mode and have the lyrics display on either, or just straight lyric mode. Album mode is just the cover, music video mode is album mode but the music video for every song with a music video, lyric mode is self explanatory - but you can choose a background color for the lyrics & . You can also do your own edits for cover art, have any mp4 you wanna play or any picture from your gallery for a playlist cover.

    And weigh the streams - that only count from clicking play on the specific service - as much as Spotify and Apple streams. It’s imperative that it’s a streaming service on an existing social media platform and not something separate because the social discussion of music needs to right there around the corner. I think celeb discussion being separate from art discussion encourages the growing separation between celebrity and artist within music.

    Or Spotify and Apple can just be smart and become the new TRL/106 with comment sections and an ability to make posts/threads with a choice to post a song or album, and the streams count with threads and posts too

    Integrating music into an existing social media platform would devalue the artform even more than something like TikTok has.

    Music should not be a “feature on an app”, it should always exist in its’ own space.

    What you’re suggesting would make more sense in the inverse; where existing streaming platforms created new features to make listening to music a more social and communal experience in the age of social media

  • Jan 19, 2025
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    TheFader

    Integrating music into an existing social media platform would devalue the artform even more than something like TikTok has.

    Music should not be a “feature on an app”, it should always exist in its’ own space.

    What you’re suggesting would make more sense in the inverse; where existing streaming platforms created new features to make listening to music a more social and communal experience in the age of social media

    That’s what the “Or” section is at the end, it’s my pitch IF Spotify and Apple don’t do that

    And TikTok has not devalued the art form, that’s resentful oldhead nonsense that shouldn’t lead any logic in this discussion whatsoever

  • Jan 19, 2025

    Lmaoooo

    real music won

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    BRAVE

    That’s what the “Or” section is at the end, it’s my pitch IF Spotify and Apple don’t do that

    And TikTok has not devalued the art form, that’s resentful oldhead nonsense that shouldn’t lead any logic in this discussion whatsoever

    In a sense it has though. There’s never been a time in history where a song can blow up because of a literal 10 second section of said song. It’s also had actual effects on how the music industry operates as well. We’ve never seen that with a social media app.

    I think younger generations interact with and appreciate music on a much different level than previous generations mostly because of what TikTok is

  • Jan 20, 2025
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    very very impressed with bad bunny

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    TheFader

    In a sense it has though. There’s never been a time in history where a song can blow up because of a literal 10 second section of said song. It’s also had actual effects on how the music industry operates as well. We’ve never seen that with a social media app.

    I think younger generations interact with and appreciate music on a much different level than previous generations mostly because of what TikTok is

    I agree . songs got popular specifically cause people were posting about its meaning and stuff, non hit songs /singles made a huge comeback on streaming cause ofit. PRIDE is a good example

  • Jan 20, 2025
    kurapika

    I agree . songs got popular specifically cause people were posting about its meaning and stuff, non hit songs /singles made a huge comeback on streaming cause ofit. PRIDE is a good example

    Yeah this definitely one of the positive effects it’s had on music for sure

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    mov
    https://twitter.com/talkofthecharts/status/1881122594377851278

    My goat

    Did he get the no. 1 song too???

  • Jan 20, 2025
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    Zenitsu Agatsuma

    My goat

    Did he get the no. 1 song too???

    Based on projections he was going to miss it by a point or two. Not sure if final numbers are out.

  • Taylor swift you wack b****!!!!

  • Jan 20, 2025
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    internet buddy

    @Echiham

    1k difference

  • Expert

    Based on projections he was going to miss it by a point or two. Not sure if final numbers are out.

    🥹🥹🥹

  • Jan 20, 2025
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    Bruh Taylor dropped another album?

  • Jan 20, 2025

    How does a five year old album randomly become #2

  • Jan 20, 2025
    EchiRodrigo

    1k difference

    W is a W

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    How did he do so much in his 2nd week compared to the 1st week?

  • Jan 20, 2025
    OnceAgain

    How did he do so much in his 2nd week compared to the 1st week?

    First week was released on a Sunday so only 4.5 days of tracking and the album has had one of the most organic growths since release.

  • Jan 20, 2025
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    Shabazz999

    very very impressed with bad bunny

    Dude might lowkey have AOTY already even though he won't get the proper recognition.

  • Jan 20, 2025
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    RICHAXXVOYCE

    Bruh Taylor dropped another album?

    It's a deluxe.

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