There have been just three weeks so far this decade where a band has been number one in the charts 🤯

It's also because A) kids can make music on their own in their bedrooms with tech that allows them to lay down all the parts that you would have needed a whole band to do in the past with little effort or live instrument abilities B) the industry tends to promote individual artists & has a whole machinery behind them, teams of songwriters etc & producers. C) there are little incentives for young ppl to form bands anymore. Less live performance opportunities, and less money in it. D) music has become devalued as a result of the way we consume it and the ease of making it using apps etc.

I’m not having Take That as a band. They’re a group. It’s very different.

If a band is lucky enough to have a track receive 1 million streams, that’s about £1000. Split that say, 4 ways and it doesn’t even pay the rent. The streaming model is broken and weighted towards making millionaires/billionaires richer and music makers poorer.

Too many people need to be paid when it’s a band. If you’re a suit and you want to cash in without singing a note, it easier done than way

Simon cowell and those crappy tv shows have a lot to answer for

Please pick up on what @musicvenuetrust has been saying on this. We are losing grassroot music venues at 2 a week. The talent pipeline gonna dry up. Football has its grassroots levy. The arenas/big festivals refuse a £1 per ticket to the grassroots (yet pay 3% in France by law)

Also with Britain outside the customs union and single market, forget touring anywhere in Europe if you’re a band starting up - unless you’re going to fill a stadium. The costs are immense. If you cheered for ending freedom of movement, you cheered for this too.

It’s because it’s far easier and accessible to create music on your computer by yourself, than finding 3-5 people who can all be in the same place at the same time multiple days a week to practice and write, and who don’t fall out with each other

I assume we’re talking singles? Because bands have been getting number one albums fairly regularly from what I can recall The vibe I get from artists is that they’re more bothered about the albums reaching number 1 than the singles (that’s where the effort to sell seems to be)

I'd say ageism in the music industry is even bigger.