Terrestrial or Streaming?
Recently, I’ve been streaming music rather than listening to terrestrial radio, which is a big change for me. I’ve always been of the mindset that streaming services don’t pay artists enough for their music, but after looking at it, radio pays them much, much less (if anything at all). I’ll get to that later. For years, terrestrial radio has been a wasteland of songs repeated daily, if not hourly, in some cases. In my Washington, DC, market, we don’t have a station like WXPN out of Philadelphia, where the music is much more diverse. So we are stuck with formatted stations that follow an algorithm, which makes for a predictable and boring playlist. But after discovering new music playlists in various genres and sub-genres on Spotify, I’ve come to change my attitude towards streaming. These curated playlists open me up to new music and artists with whom I am unfamiliar. This had led to me purchasing CDs (yes, I still enjoy physical media) direct from the artist, as well as concert ticke