Is catalog really eating frontline music’s market share in streaming

Catalog music eating into frontline music’s market share has become one of the music industry’s bigger talking points these past few years. But is ‘old’ music really getting that much more popular? Or does the definition of catalog need an adjustment in today’s streaming-led music industry – where audiences appear to be playing (and replaying) hit songs for far longer than they might once have done?

Source: ‘Nearly 3 out of every 4 on-demand audio streams is coming from music that’s 10 years old or younger.’

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