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0 pointssokoloff1y ago0 comments

> It's the only way people listen to music - there's nothing else

It’s far from the only way people listen to music. I listen to music on FM radio way more than I do free streaming services (mostly Amazon music’s free tier) for the overwhelmingly majority (essentially all) of my music consumption, and have no user-paid subscriptions. Both are ad-supported and probably pay little to artists, similar to paid streaming.

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idiotsecant1y ago

Yes, there's probably someone somewhere listening to pirate shortwave radio broadcasts, too.

You're being pedantic. Most people do not consume FM radio as their main source of music.

sokoloffOP1y ago

The worldwide radio market revenue is about $35B/yr. I think that’s larger than the audio streaming market; the reference point I found for that was $25B/yr.

Granted, not all radio is music (nor is streaming), but (assuming I didn’t get the research wrong) radio is larger, making it at least slightly weird to call it a pedantic argument that the larger of the two markets even exists as a source of music for people.

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