73 Music is dead, just like this shitty nu-puritanical culture we live in — Old songs from the 70s, 80s, 90s now represent 70% of the current U.S. music streaming market (archive.ph) posted 2 years ago by loubag1997 2 years ago by loubag1997 +74 / -1 79 comments share 79 comments share save hide report block hide replies
The downward spiral began when the charts went from being decided by listener votes to being decided arbitrarily, which just meant decided by payments from record labels. This happened in the early 90s IIRC.