They have made better by democratizing it and making more kinds of music accessible to more people on demand.
It‘s worse because music can be produced and uploaded by, at best, mediocre talent, and artists get paid a pittance. For every hundred songs, 3-5 might be “ok” and one or two are “keepers” if you’re lucky.
Gone are the days where bands have a string of bangers and albums loaded with great songs. A lot of music just seems to be thrown at the wall to see what sticks. There were a lot of downsides to major label controlled music industry, but they also made some great bands.
This is a weird take…as someone who is a Indy artist who makes mediocre music I HARDLY “get paid”. The amount I get paid doesn’t even cover my yearly sub to distrokid…and I don’t ever plan on making “hundreds” of songs. Like what??
That would be the “pittance” part. This is about a hundred random songs not a single artist.
This isn’t about you.