A Modern Tribute to Dire Straits – AI Creates an Original Track with Knopfler’s

[Robson]

Totally agree, WE are fans of REAL music. Made by people with heart and soul. And that's what is all about.
Even if one day they will call us dinosaurs.

 

[superval99]

Totally agree, WE are fans of REAL music. Made by people with heart and soul. And that's what is all about.
Even if one day they will call us dinosaurs.

I agree!

[Chris W]

Fashion is cyclical. Hopefully humans making music will become commercially successful again. In any case, humans will always play music and write songs, it's just getting harder to be heard, to be found.

[Mossguitar]

Fashion is cyclical. Hopefully humans making music will become commercially successful again. In any case, humans will always play music and write songs, it's just getting harder to be heard, to be found.

This must be wrong, mustn’t it? It has to be way easier for musicians to be heard and found today with new technologies and direct distribution and so on. I wonder what statistics say about that (if there are any). I would believe that competition is harder, but that more musicians can live off music today than ever before.

[dustyvalentino]

Fashion is cyclical. Hopefully humans making music will become commercially successful again. In any case, humans will always play music and write songs, it's just getting harder to be heard, to be found.

This must be wrong, mustn’t it? It has to be way easier for musicians to be heard and found today with new technologies and direct distribution and so on. I wonder what statistics say about that (if there are any). I would believe that competition is harder, but that more musicians can live off music today than ever before.

Well, rightly or wrongly you used to have curators in the form of record companies and radio stations that would steer people in a certain direction. Nowadays not so much.

Add to that the fact that people don't want to actually pay for recorded music in any meaningful sense now. Live is different. But even then, if someone is paying £300 for Oasis, that's maybe 6 £50 gig tickets that they could have spent on smaller artists.

[Rolo]

Fashion is cyclical. Hopefully humans making music will become commercially successful again. In any case, humans will always play music and write songs, it's just getting harder to be heard, to be found.

This must be wrong, mustn’t it? It has to be way easier for musicians to be heard and found today with new technologies and direct distribution and so on. I wonder what statistics say about that (if there are any). I would believe that competition is harder, but that more musicians can live off music today than ever before.

Last time I saw the numbers. 80%+ Of Spotify artists Had less than 1k streams. It means no money for them. Common users do not search for new music.
Doing demos CDs were much more realistic then put música on streaming platforms.

[Chris W]

This must be wrong, mustn’t it? It has to be way easier for musicians to be heard and found today with new technologies and direct distribution and so on. I wonder what statistics say about that (if there are any). I would believe that competition is harder, but that more musicians can live off music today than ever before.

There is almost no money in recorded music, with the streaming rate at $0.003 per stream. You have to have 1 million streams to reach minimum wage. Some of my most popular streams on Spotify have 25,000, nowhere near minimum wage. I think 99,000 songs are uploaded to Spotify every day, so any up and coming or indie artist has virtually no chance of ever being heard (or streamed). The absolute key to streaming success is being placed on one of the popular playlists - which is worse than the old record label days. To get on a popular playlist you either have to pay $$$ or find someone influential to recommend you.
Even in the 70's and 80's you had DJs like John Peel championing left field and unknown artists on his popular show.

[Robson]

Or Charlie Gillett, if we're talking about Dire Straits Those were the glorious days when radio had a huge impact on the popularity of unknown bands

[Chris W]

Exactly