• mistrgamin@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I stopped caring about online music charts once I found out how people bot their favorite artists to trending cuz they’re insecure in their own music tastes

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      11 months ago

      people bot their favorite artists

      That’s less “people” and more “marketing departments”. So much mid-tier music gets blown up and then dropped overnight, as the promotion models change.

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        11 months ago

        nah there’s 100% people who go out of their way to shuffle through a single artists’ discography and every song they’ve been featured in 24/7. Hell, I found one right after reading this