Originally Posted by ThomasSA
And that is my point, back in the days there was fewer artists, bigger concerts, more artist branding and everything was controlled by a handful of record companies.

Today the biggest concerts are replaced with festivals like Tomorrowland, EDC Miami and similar. Just have a look at Highest Grossing Tours of All Time, none of the current artists are on this list (except two)... why is that?
Blame Simon Cowell.

It might also be because music isn't the generational cultural tribal identifier for the young that it was for the baby boomers; no mods vs rockers, or punks sweeping away the pretensions of their elder siblings' prog rock, or synth new wave or new romantics looking for other ways to differentiate themselves from what came before, etc. Today, there is just so much more to choose from, and be exposed to, with the internet, in gaming, in television programming, in social media, and in music of all genres of course; so many other things competing for one's limited disposable income and time, that tastes have have become more eclectic and fragmented.

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