A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post (see here) about how concert tickets have been getting more expensive. I touched on two main explanations for this, one is inflation, the other is the change in revenue artists make from selling their music. Artists used to sell millions of records and would see a... Continue Reading →
The COVID19 pandemic has brought about an increase in both unemployment and remote home office working. This is seeing a lot more people with time at home. As well as this lockdown and social distancing restrictions have rendered socialising more difficult among friends and loved ones. All of this extra time at home got me... Continue Reading →
It is often said that music is a form of therapy and a lot of research finds that it is beneficial to people in stressful situations. This got me wondering whether or not it could it help alleviate some of the stresses associated with the COVID19 lockdown situation. We are all struggling with being away... Continue Reading →
I use Spotify quite a lot during normal times, but now that COVID19 has me housebound I've noticed I'm using it even more. I took to the Irish Spotify charts to see was this a national event or just me. The below chart shows the total number of streams for each song in the top... Continue Reading →
A few posts back I wrote about the difficulty of using proxies in music. Proxies are approximate measurements used to measure things which are difficult to quantify. That post discussed the use of proxies to try and determine which band was the greatest ever. This proves difficult because there is no one measurement for greatness and... Continue Reading →
A recent post on this site looked at how the Bohemian Rhapsody film sent Queen's music back into the charts (see here). So with the release of the new Sir Elton John movie, Rocketman, last week I felt it was only appropriate to conduct a similar analysis for another one of Britain's greatest ever performers. The analysis is... Continue Reading →
Mondays are usually tough enough in their own right, but this week on the 4th of March 2019 the start of the working week was accompanied by the savage loss of Keith Flint. As well as being an absolutely crucial character to British music, Keith was also an incredibly funny person who will be missed... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year everyone! Seen as this is the sites first post of 2019 I thought I would take inspiration from the festive period for it. Now that the Christmas period is over it means a few things have probably happened. You’re probably a bit worse for wear in work and you’ve probably heard this... Continue Reading →
Society has a tendency to overlook just how complicated the world we live in is. Just take something simple like being able to listen to a song on your phone. For this service to be available there needs to be an artist willing to make the music, a sound engineer willing to record the music,... Continue Reading →
