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I want my own thread for posting music stuff. by skip 05/10/2015, 6:08pm PDT
It'll probably be more essay or industry focused than Roops. Let's start off talking about jazz. Jazz Has Become The Least-Popular Genre In The U.S.

According to Nielsen‘s 2014 Year-End Report, jazz is continuing to fall out of favor with American listeners and has tied with classical music as the least-consumed music in the U.S., after children’s music.

Both jazz and classical represent just 1.4% of total U.S. music consumption a piece. However, Classical album sales were higher for 2014, which puts Jazz at the bottom of the barrel. . .

As illustrated above, Jazz was the only genre to have its digital album sales decline, year-on-year, between 2011 and 2012. And more recently, even though the use of on-demand streaming services like Spotify grew by 54.5% between 2013 and 2014; jazz music represented just 0.3% of all music streamed during the same period.


Jazz is less popular than classical and Kidz Bop in this country. And another article noting the same numbers:

In terms of overall music consumption — including albums and single tracks, streaming and physical copies — jazz and classical tied for last place, with 1.4% of the market for recorded music. Rock was on top, with 29%, followed by R&B/hip-hop (17.2%), pop (14.9%), country (11.2%), Dance/electronic (EDM) (3.4%), Christian/gospel (3.1%), holiday/seasonal and Latin (tied at 2.6%).

For anyone tempted to buy “the death of jazz” as a takeaway from the poll, consider that jazz festivals are continuing to proliferate, at home and abroad. So are jazz programs at colleges and high schools.


By that logic, if a local marching band plays doo wop occasionally, that means the genre is still alive. I read somewhere that audiences age into classical music so there's always new gray hair to replace the old. Despite constant essays of how it's dying, it's never quite left or effectively captured the youth market. It's outlived so many musical genres at this point that it's dumb to think it will die. (Hello Slate) It'll be interesting to see if the same phenomenon happens to jazz or its fanbase shrinks to the point where it becomes a novelty genre like yodeling.

The other notable thing is that rock beat hip-hop and pop for music consumption. I guess hip-hop rules streaming but that seems like a pyrrhic victory since streaming pays peanuts compared to digital or physical sales.
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I want my own thread for posting music stuff. by skip 05/10/2015, 6:08pm PDT NEW
    Fuck. Wrong forum. Oh well. Awaiting my mod suspension. NT by skip 05/10/2015, 6:09pm PDT NEW
        Suspending YOU doesn't fix anything, you'll just evade it. by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/10/2015, 6:35pm PDT NEW
 
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