Musicians Wage War Against Evil Robots

Re:Musicians Wage War Against Evil Robots by IAmGraydon on Monday January 02, 2023 @04:08PM (#34223692)

>Is there any data to support this? I would be shocked if this were true outside of the COVID years. There's certainly more music readily available to people now than at any point in history.

It’s hyperbolic BS, as per usual when it comes to emotionally charged arguments with no basis in reality. According to every statistic I can find, live entertainment and concert ticket sales have been on a steady uptrend until (as you mentioned) 2020. Here’s one source:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/306065/concert-ticket-sa...

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Re:Musicians Wage War Against Evil Robots by Retric on Monday January 02, 2023 @04:27PM (#34223903)

Concert tickets represent a small slice of the music scene. Parties, bars, etc don’t pay that well, but there are vastly more people at the bottom of the music pyramid making near minimum wage than superstars.

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Re:Musicians Wage War Against Evil Robots by stemlord on Monday January 02, 2023 @05:06PM (#34224331)

To be fair the modern concert experience can be very not-live

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Re:Musicians Wage War Against Evil Robots by WalterBright on Monday January 02, 2023 @08:34PM (#34226399)

If they're dancing, they're lib-syncing.

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Re:Musicians Wage War Against Evil Robots by asdff on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @01:39AM (#34228514)

Are these statistics considering what the musician gets payed or what ticketmaster gets payed? I wonder if it takes a larger show to make the same inflation adjusted take today as it did 25 years ago.

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