The Guardian: Why are people streaming less music during lockdown

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The Official Charts Company reported in the last week of March that audio streaming in the UK was up just 0.4% from the previous week. It added that 82.3% of the album chart came from streaming, up from 75.3% two weeks earlier. But streaming has only grown its share because physical sales have fallen. And while early numbers would naturally skew as people acclimatised to home working, the New York Times reported on 6 April that combined streams of the Top 200 on Spotify in the US slipped for the third consecutive week – hitting their lowest point of the year.

The music business is a highly interconnected ecosystem. [..] It is partly why Dua Lipa brought her album forward before the promotional bridge completely collapsed. It is also why Lady Gaga and Sam Smith pushed theirs back in the hope that things will return to something resembling normal when they finally drop.

 

 

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People used to stream while going to gym, people use to stream while travelling , now they can't !!

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4 minutes ago, Randomaccessmemory said:

People used to stream while going to gym, people use to stream while travelling , now they can't !!

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For me it’s mostly cause i like to listen to music while doing something else. And it’s not like i’m doing much lately

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I only listen to music when I go to work, fortunately I am still working but if I wasn't I probably wouldn't have streamed anything in a while 

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7 minutes ago, Randomaccessmemory said:

People used to stream while going to gym, people use to stream while travelling , now they can't !!

Yeah, music usually accompanies you during activities, not everyone likes laying down in a couch listening to music while looking at the ceiling.

 

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Great topic.

This is worth discussion.

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10 minutes ago, Adakam said:

Yeah, music usually accompanies you during activities, not everyone likes laying down in a couch listening to music while looking at the ceiling.

 

this is so me 

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A lot of people stream when they’re driving/walking/biking to work/school/parties/etcetera. And sadly the only place I’m really walking to these days is the couch. 

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Because people watch Netflix instead.

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bc the album people would be streaming got postponed 

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Lockdown has forced the “real” us to come out of hiding. We used to stream lots of crappy music because we were in artificial environments (bars, gyms, stores) surrounded by crap people, trying to impress crap people. We did it to virtue signal 

No more need to be fake anymore. Let’s face it, streaming was invented for phoneys, by phoneys 

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It makes me sad that most people only use music as a background activity  there is nothing better than smoking a j*int and listening to an album front to back whilst starting at a wall lmao 

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I actually listen to more music now, because I have nothing else to do. I have listened to Madonna's entire discography the last few days. Plus I have listened to a lot of artists that I usually never listen to, such as Fiona Apple and Dua Lipa.

[Killa 18,822]

Me i only listen to music at home

Tsk tsk

I do a whole sattanic ritual, can only do at home. Tho its been vynils and pirate thingz