And, at least for EDM, seems to have been replaced by Twitch. I'd never used Twitch for more than a minute before this year. But now I'm on there all day (I'm watching right now in fact) because you can pretty much find a music artist streaming at any time of day, any day of the week.

I'm watching someone from Germany right now. She's a bit unique in that she publishes her real time subscriber number. If you do the math you can see she makes about $25,000/mo just from subs, and that doesn't include bits during hype trains.

Just wondering, I never understood it.

Especially for EDM, the songs seem to be premixed. The DJs seem to be standing around, pretending to turn some knobs but the sound doesn't seem to be impacted too much.

I understand artists playing a guitar live on Twitch, but for electronic music?

I’d be surprised if many sets are premixed, but many are preplanned (as in, the DJ knows which songs he/she will play, in what order, and how many bars out/in to start the fade).

Of course, that’s still pretty boring to watch, which is why there’s a lot of fake knob twists and styling going on.

I consume a lot of Youtube DJ sets but it’s all just playing in the background, I never watch the video.

I've been watching Darude do a little set every Friday. No idea how much it makes him but I suspect not a huge amount.

Who is she?