I think citing nation-specific European artists might be a tad misleading; given that many of those nations have national broadcasters with a specific mandate to put "native champions" in the country's music business forward (if not specific regulations, like Canada's "CanCon").
Local musicians in places like the US are extremely disadvan…
I think citing nation-specific European artists might be a tad misleading; given that many of those nations have national broadcasters with a specific mandate to put "native champions" in the country's music business forward (if not specific regulations, like Canada's "CanCon").
Local musicians in places like the US are extremely disadvantaged by conditions in the streaming/online space, as well as terrestrial radio; because the Nostalgia Industrial Complex has eaten most of the available space with "legacy music" that they own, and modern local musicians are forced to fight for the tiny spaces that are left.
That's a good point. We acknowledge some of these quotas in the paper. That said, if you play around with historical Italian charts, for example, on this site below, you can see that 10-20 years ago that there was a much larger percentage of music by large cultural exporters, like the US and UK. Streaming seems to have inhibited their cultural hegemony to a degree.
I think citing nation-specific European artists might be a tad misleading; given that many of those nations have national broadcasters with a specific mandate to put "native champions" in the country's music business forward (if not specific regulations, like Canada's "CanCon").
Local musicians in places like the US are extremely disadvantaged by conditions in the streaming/online space, as well as terrestrial radio; because the Nostalgia Industrial Complex has eaten most of the available space with "legacy music" that they own, and modern local musicians are forced to fight for the tiny spaces that are left.
That's a good point. We acknowledge some of these quotas in the paper. That said, if you play around with historical Italian charts, for example, on this site below, you can see that 10-20 years ago that there was a much larger percentage of music by large cultural exporters, like the US and UK. Streaming seems to have inhibited their cultural hegemony to a degree.
https://top40-charts.com/chart.php?cid=18&date=