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 30th March 2024, 11:25 AM
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QUOTE(Tuttavilla @ Mar 30 2024, 07:12 PM)  Gosh, worse and worse. No excuse for that in this technical age. I can somewhat understand the rationale, it probably barely changes things where it matters, and it really does take exceedingly long to get it all through. But it does add a degree of uncertainty looking at the chart, especially if you have ACR a factor, making those very precise week-to-week differences crucial. |
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30th March 2024, 12:22 PM
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Acr after 5 weeks , super Acr after 10, super duper ACR after 20
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31st March 2024, 09:47 PM
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I was pondering what changes could be made to either the chart or the music industry to make the charts more transparent and meaningful to the average music fan and I wondered if it would be possible for Spotify, Deezer, Youtube Music, Apple Music and others to sort of reward music fans for streaming the latest single, slightly reward them for stuff that is a little bit older, and not reward at all for anything older than a certain point, except where an old single gets a genuine new wind for one reason or another and is permitted to give the full reward (in effect being designated the streaming equivelant of a re-issue). I don't know what form the reward could take, but I could imagine something along the lines of 'music points' that can then be set to be shared on your socials on a daily or weekly basis to show how 'with it' your streaming was this week, perhaps with different trophies possible for reaching certain totals, or earning a certain number of points from one particular act, or earning points from a certain number of genres etc etc. I know a lot of people try to earn the various trophies within a computer game or mobile app, even where that isn't the primary focus of the game in question, so something similar in music streaming could also work. Say only one single by an act or artist can be giving out the maximum reward at any given time, and that new single can only give out the maximum reward to the consumer for either a fixed number of weeks or until that act's management decide to move it to a newer release, then you'd have a time-critical element to music consumption again, which you had when you could only buy something if it was still in the shops, but which you don't get now when everything is available indefinitely. ACR wouldn't be needed, and could be scrapped as most chart nerds probably want, if the consumer was being incentivised to seek the newest track by any given artist over older stuff, while at the same time they'd still be free to listen to old stuff if they wanted, so music fans would still have freedom to choose what they actually want to listen to, and also older stuff wouldn't be artificially penalised within the chart rules anymore.
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31st March 2024, 11:16 PM
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I feel like any service turning music listening into a game would receive quite a lot of backlash for trivialising it.
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1st April 2024, 01:24 AM
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QUOTE(WhoOdyssey @ Apr 1 2024, 12:16 AM) I feel like any service turning music listening into a game would receive quite a lot of backlash for trivialising it. Maybe not turning it into a game as such, perhaps the trophies thing was a step too far in that direction. But we can use TwitterFormerlyKnownAsX to turn our thoughts into likes and retweets, or instagram to turn our pictures into likes (or whatever the mechanism is), or youtube to turn our homeshot videos into views and/or etc etc so why not something a bit like that for our listening (though I do realise my other examples involve our own creations being rated, whereas this would be somehow rewarding our interaction with the creations of others). Most of the internet has a way of translating our experience into something measurable that we can strive for more of. Finding some sort of mechanism like that for music streaming (whether that be the 'music points' I suggested, or something else), tieing it into something akin to the release schedules of the physical era (by having a higher reward for newer music, again in whatever form that reward takes) and also making it shareable in some way via social media to encourage young music fans to want to share what they have and see what their friends have, could be the recipe to encourage people to engage more in newer music and maybe less in the older stuff (but wouldn't actually prevent them streaming older stuff if they wanted to, nor would the chart downplay those plays of older music with an arbritrary chart rule). I don't know exactly what form the reward could take to best engage teens and twenty somethings, mainly because I'm 41 myself now, but there must be something that could work and wouldn't cost much (or anything) to actually do (so I'm not envisioning them doing free cds/downloads for every so many points or anything like that). |
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