Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market

Re:Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market by marcodiego on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:32PM (#30075898)

How old must a song be to be considered and "old song"?

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Re:Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market by wcarron on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:44PM (#30076069)

From the article:

Only songs released in the past 18 months get classified as “new” in the MRC database, so people could conceivably be listening to a lot of two-year-old songs, rather than 60-year-old ones. But I doubt these old playlists consist of songs from the year before last. Even if they did, that fact would still represent a repudiation of the pop-culture industry, which is almost entirely focused on what’s happening right now.

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Re:Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market by porterbeats on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:56PM (#30076264)

According to the article, more than 2 years. That seems awfully short, and means music from early 2020 is considered old now by these standards.

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