Why the charts are full of old songs

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOld songs are taking over the charts and streaming playlists, and the BBC is asking why.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMusic Business Worldwide has the numbers.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorCatalog music took fifty-five point four percent of Spotify's global weekly Top Two Hundred streams in the first nine months of the year.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo new songs are the minority on their own chart.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd songs ten years or older drove ninety-eight percent of the rise in US catalog streams.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe new stuff isn't even in the growth figures. It's a closed shop.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMichael Jackson alone had fifteen songs on the weekly global chart. That's three point oh two billion streams.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFifteen spots, one man. If you're a young artist, that's your landlord.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBohemian Rhapsody is at three point two five eight billion streams. From nineteen seventy-five.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorCommentary says TikTok is introducing these songs to people who weren't born when they came out. So the fix is simple: stop having children.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI checked my playlist. The newest song on it is older than the intern.