It all began a year or so ago, around the time of the first 'Soundcloud Slaughter', where we saw thousands on thousands of bootlegs, remixes, flips, mashups, mixtapes even fully-legal originals removed from the site as per new copyright laws and site changes to protect the property of artists.
Soundcloud has really fallen into a lot of shit recently.
Then, the other day, in came Soundcloud with their new weapon - Soundcloud Go. Spotify with it's "not paying the artists enough", Apple Music with it's "not paying the artist at all to start off with" and of course, Tidal and it's millions of bugs and problems since it's disastrous, Jay-Z-led rebranding and relaunch in May 2015 (all of which, have been more or less fixed - bar Tidal). Each of these came with their respective problems, of course. Most would agree that despite the resurgence of the vinyl, we are well into the age of digital streaming - billions of songs at our fingertips at any time, across a variety of websites, apps and programs including Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal and the fallen kings that were Napster and Grooveshark, for a range of prices. From the golden days of phonographs and concert hall recordings in the late 1800s to the rise and fall (and rise again) of vinyl, the explosion of the cassettes, the CD age, then, of course, the launch of the Apple iPod and iTunes in the early 2000s, the way we listen to music has changed in so many ways, and continue to do so.
The progression in music listening over the past few decades is incredibly interesting and the fact that it constantly evolves, now at a quicker pace than ever, is really quite startling.
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