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[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

it's very common for radio personalities to be like "THIS IS THE REAL STATION FOR HARD ALT CLASSICS, KEEP YOUR GRANDMA AWAY!" and then play the same 200 song playlist as every other station because radio has been captured by iHeartMedia and homogenized to hell and back.

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

iHeartMedia plays artists that they own, either record contract or catalogue.

When I lived in the UK my local gym always had the same shitty radio station on and I was like "Why do they keep playing these artists? I almost never hear them on BBC" and it turned out to be because the owners of the radio station also owned those artists. Vertical integration baby!

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

I'm grateful every day that my rock station is independent, and they still play Black Sabbath and Tool and whatnot. It's still pretty repetitive, but that's because there's not a ton of new rock music.

[-] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

There is an absolutely insane amount of new rock music. More rock music is being made today than ever before in the history of music.

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