Not in terms of the quality of music brought out but with how quickly people on from artists who would struggle to survive now?

All of them

Mims

"I could sell a mill sayin' nothin' on the track." one of the hardest bars ever tho

You reckon MJ would struggle?

Twitter woulda “this you’d” that nigga into a suicidal spiral.

All the older artists had an attribute of mystique that afforded the room and grace period to make mistakes and exist to be a human that the streaming era just doesnt allow.

The big 3 blew up right before the streaming era became universal

The megastars wouldn’t have been as big but a lot of smaller or medium level artists would’ve had an easier time building a fanbase and brand

imagine thriller deluxe or nevermind deluxe dropping the week after the original

To be frank with you, if streaming was around back then, the industry would’ve adapted to it back then, and who knows how the landscape would look like rn

If streaming was around in the mid 80’s, MJ would have like 250 million monthly listeners or some whacky s*** like that

80s rappers
They'd be clowned for abc 123 rhyme schemes

Yep, the industry would just be different, a lot of gimmicky one hit wonders would've pulled through tbh.

a lot of the failures back then would’ve been given more of a chance

that feels conservative even tho it’s nuts

It really did feel like I was lowballing, but that’s like double the #1 artist rn.

yeah like t swift and maybe like the weeknd who i assume is number 2 are massive but mj was just like universal love and he covered every base musically and people would be trying to copy the dance moves and outfits there’s no limit to what kind of numbers someone that big would do today

imagine tiktok if thriller or beat it dropped today? we thought the savage dance was big

Nope

MJ the Goat would dominate the Tik Tok algorithms if thriller dropped today

@MICHAELJACKSON

Prince definitely

Definitely those rockbands that were doing concept albums and s***. Pink Floyd would’ve been an ‘underground’ thing, cus nobody this day and age is streaming 15 min tracks

Media pretty much this you’d him when he was alive

Fish out of water