The Path of Least Resistance
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YouTube à gogo
There's really not much to say. I've been lurking in YouTube territory doing my thing in a few different ways. Since the last entry , I've put together a number of videos. Four, in fact. #1 #2 #3 and #4 In regards to this blog, everything is up in the air at the moment. Whatever outcome transpires will eventually reveal itself in time.
Coming Soon : Review Time
[from my YouTube channel ] Now that I've made this commitment I guess there's no backing out.
International Women's Day 2022
... and to celebrate as well as commemorate this momentous occasion , I've sifted through the back rooms and cereal boxes of Chez Stomp and come across an early picture of me and my Mum. ahhh ...happy days!
And the Bland Played On
A couple of days ago I wrote about how ARIA were going to start counting YouTube views as well as what some would say the unholy alliance between the popular music charts and streaming resulting in a completely housebound chart going nowhere. I showed an example of the latest top ten and how it seemed a number of tunes were just hanging around well past their expiry date. The latest chart has just been released and the staleness is even more pronounced. The same singles in the top ten this week were all exactly the same singles last week. The list below was taken from a Top 50. The top three alone have a combined total of 135 weeks. It's the same old same old as the same old songs return to the same old chart positions reached as is the case with Heat Waves ( a number one for six weeks about a year ago) or Stay ( 14 weeks at pole position around the middle of last year). The music charts may not be dead as such but they still give off the stench of a cadaver in decay.
ARIA and YouTube Streaming in a Tree...
Has the advent of streaming made the music charts redundant? Possibly, but at the very least they've become incredibly stagnant with curated playlists on the likes of Spotify being played by passive listeners as a sort of radio replacement. Hence the same songs are getting played over and over and over again causing an incredibly stale chart rundown. Take a gander at the latest list of Australian top ten singles for more of an insight on what I'm saying. Awful. For the most part we get the same old tired rubbish gridlocked but now ARIA have the answer. More streaming data. Yes, that's right. More. This however is courtesy of YouTube. Whether or not this makes much of an impact remains to be seen. The YouTube/ARIA alliance comes into effect this Friday, March the fourth. For more details click here or check out the screenshots below --
