• mistrgamin@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I stopped caring about online music charts once I found out how people bot their favorite artists to trending cuz they’re insecure in their own music tastes

  • Dale'sDeadBug@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Try out the Radio Garden app. It lets you pick almost any radio station worldwide and lets you pick through them on a globe. I found a ton of my current favorite artists through it. A few of my coworkers from Venezuela were thrilled to be able to hear stations from their hometowns.

  • Fixbeat@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I blame radio. They only shovel garbage into your ears and shit you’ve heard a thousand times.

    • astraeus@programming.dev
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      7 months ago

      It isn’t radio though because hardly anyone listens to the radio anymore. It’s probably because there is a practically small amount of radio listening that people have started grabbing onto anything that sounds basic and easily digestible. The less they’re challenged, the better they feel about it.

      • Fixbeat@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        I feel like someone (radio, record labels, etc) is dictating what is easily available to the public and it usually isn’t good, it’s formula stupidity or old music. Old music is usually better music, but I personally can’t listen to most of it anymore.

        • astraeus@programming.dev
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          7 months ago

          I’m going to somewhat disagree, at least in principle. In the past three years I have heard so much good new music, music made in the last five to ten years, or even music made the year I heard it, that I think it’s out there. It’s just much more difficult to latch onto. There’s so much new stuff that’s just palatable, there’s a lot more access to music making gear and equipment that just about anyone can release an album now.

          Popular music is mostly dictated by the law of supply and demand, if an artist is easily marketable then a record label is going to invest. Most streaming platforms are designed to spotlight up and coming artists (most marketable artists), or those artists who already have massive fanbases (market stalwarts). This wasn’t any different 50 years ago, but 50 years ago there was a higher standard for what music got to be released. There was also a much higher bar to entry for recording studio-quality music.

        • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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          7 months ago

          Old music is usually better music

          There is so much music being created right now, that there is simultaneously more good music and bad music than in the older days.

          Radio hasn’t been a metric since like 2010. The indie scene is where it is at and it has never been bigger. Plenty of bands making classic rock music if you are into that.

    • mister_flibble@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      Yeah, it’s not that music has gotten worse, it’s that radio has gone squarely down the shitter since basically every station is owned by like 2 companies now.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I don’t know. I just download individual songs that I like.

    This is what I seem to have from the 2020s:

    ls -R "storage/card/Music "* | grep -e 2020 -e 2021 -e 2022 -e 2023 -e 2024
Ambient Hood - Snowfall (2023).flac
V_J - Memory Reboot (2023).flac
Alesso - Words (2022).flac
Ava Max - EveryTime I Cry (2021).flac
Calvin Harris - Desire (2023).flac
Glockenbach - Brooklyn (2021).flac
Imagine Dragons - Follow You (2021)(MP3_320K).mp3
Imagine Dragons - Sharks (2022).flac
Imagine Dragons - Wrecked (2021).flac
Lost Frequencies - The Feeling (2023).flac
Michael Patrick Kelly - Throwback (2021)(MP3_320K).mp3
Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u (2021).flac
OneRepublic - RUNAWAY (2023).flac
Peggy Gou - (It Goes Like) Nanana (Edit) (2023).flac
The Interrupters - In The Mirror (2022).flac
The Weeknd - Blinding Lights (2020).flac
Pitbull - JUMPIN (2023).flac
Tarkan - Hep Birlikte Milli Takım (2023).flac
Tarkan - Yap Bi Güzellik (2022).flac
Delain - We Had Everything (2020).flac
Into It. Over It. - Courtesy Greetings (2020).flac
Movements - Don_t Give Up Your Ghost (2020).flac
Poets of the Fall - Requiem for My Harlequin (2022).flac
Spiritbox - Rotoscope (2022).flac
Tiny Moving Parts - Guardians (2020).flac

    Out of 1,226 songs out of which roughly 1,175 is actual music meant for listening (the difference is excluding directories Music type 9 and Music out of directory).

    Though it is also good to note not all of them are (yet) marked with a year.

  • lemmyknow@lemmy.todayInterlingua
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    7 months ago

    I can suggest my top 5 most heard artists of 2023:

    • 100 gecs
    • Lola Indigo
    • San Holo
    • Fox Stevenson
    • Hannah Diamond

    I reckon the selection is rather diverse. Depending on which you like, if any, I can recommend more stuff like it (or you can check the section for “fans of this also like those” on the artist page on Spotify, assuming you have Spotify).

  • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
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    7 months ago

    Let me recommend some Excellent Chinese/Taiwanese band I found this year (most of them are instrumental rock, so there are no language barriers)

  • Alex@feddit.ro
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    7 months ago

    Unroyal, The Score, OUTSKRTS, Mascot, X Ambassadors, AJR, Onerepublic, Twenty One Pilots

  • Chill Dude 69@lemmynsfw.com
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    7 months ago

    Every generation: “I know all the generations before me have whined about the new music the kids are listening to, and I always correctly identified their whining as pathetic old-person behavior. But MY generation is actually right. The new music objectively sucks.”

    It’ll happen to the current batch of kids, too.

    Nobody will ever rise above it. It’s just a basic part of human nature. You m ight as well ask people to stop breathing.

    • evranch@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      Selection bias is huge too. You could argue that the current hits suck, and that the current hits have always sucked in every era. Lots of them do, they’re disposable trash music.

      The difference is that we don’t remember half the garbage that hit the charts when we were young, only the good stuff survives. When I play classic bangers for my daughter, she thinks they’re awesome. Some of those tracks are older than me, but with streaming services and huge libraries “hits” don’t really matter that much when we can now listen to the best tracks picked out of a century of recorded music.

      I’m nearly 40 and I like to blast some of the current hits, I like stuff from the 90s and I like classic rock, funk and some of the really old jazz and blues stuff. There’s no reason to act like your age has to determine your musical taste.

      I have no time for some of the modern rappers with no skill though, that stuff is objectively trash when we grew up with legends like Outkast, Eminem etc lol

      • Chill Dude 69@lemmynsfw.com
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        7 months ago

        Blah, blah, blah, just a bunch of music snob nonsense, spewing from your keyboard.

        Just stop being a music snob. It’s better and easier. You’re NEVER going to convince people to start hating the music that they like. And if you do, that’s just fucking sad for everyone involved.

        • beardown@lemm.ee
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          7 months ago

          All art should be criticized, and bad art should certainly be criticized

          And bad art that was made with the immense backing of the status quo should be especially criticized.

    • MadBigote@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      That’s kinda missing the point. I am aware my taste in music is not the same as the new generation, still I hear and discover new music that’s actually interesting.

      On the other hand, Spotify misses the opportunity to actually offer you discovering new genres, artists, songs that you may like. That’s OPs point, and I agree.

      The last time a streaming service actually made me discover new music was 2015 Deezer.

    • SeducingCamel@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      Love peggy, he’s an incredible performer too. One man show with him DJing, no backing track, incredibly high energy performances of every song

  • Soup@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I realized a long time ago that music “sucked” because I would never open myself up to it and genuinely allow myself to find value in it.

    It’s like my dad who has just decided that all rap sucks even though he has basically zero experience with it. I said the same thing until I was around 21 and almost missed all the really, really good stuff. Tai Verdes’ album “TV” is incredibly musical, for example.

    What do you listen to right now?

    • Quoll_Strife@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 months ago

      I try my hardest to find new songs, because I don’t want to be some boomer bastard.

      I don’t know what exactly counts as ‘new’, but I’m enjoying these songs a lot lately

      AronChupa & Little Sis Nora - Tangaman
      Little Sis Nora - MDMA
      These two remind me of late 90s eurobeat shit like Aqua.

      Shotgun Willy - Bombs Away
      bbno$ & Yung Gravy (BABY GRAVY) - Goodness Gracious
      I actually just like anything by this bbno$ guy, but I’m loving the beats and flow on these styles of rap.

      Pickle - Stompin’
      Makes me feel like I’m on drugs in a club back in the day.

      I feel like a lot of new music is probably hidden away on shit like TikTok where I’m never going to be exposed to it because I don’t use it. I have noticed Drum ‘n’ Bass seems to be back, but I was never a fan of that but I’m sure it’s someones jam.

      • StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        I try my hardest to find new songs, because I don’t want to be some boomer bastard.

        I got news for you, pal. The harder you try to be young and hip for the sake of being young and hip, the worse the outcome will be. You’re not getting any younger, and the sooner you accept that, the better.

        Instead of forcing yourself to listen to music that has the single attribute of “released less than 6 months ago” in some sad, vain attempt to relive your glory days, try exploring music based on what you actually enjoy. What artists inspire you? Who influenced them, and what genres influenced their sound? Where did the roots of that sound originate? If a song you love is a cover, who wrote or performed the original? What style of singing is it, or what kind of beat?

        Listen to what you want to listen to. The most interesting conversations I have with people about music always involve the history and roots of sound, not that last hip shit my aging hipster Lyft driver subjected me to.

        • Quoll_Strife@lemmy.worldOP
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          7 months ago

          Nah.

          Always grow, find and discover new things, and challenge yourself.

          The world is full of so much, to retreat back into yourself and only live in nostalgia is not healthy.

          Getting old is inevitable, being a boomer is a choice.