Does anyone else kinda miss the EDM/dance phase?

[boombox4]

Nile FM is commercial... as are the dance stations I know of in Italy, Germany, France and other European nations as well as all of them in Latin America, starting with top rated Beat FM in Mexico City.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHSON-FM

Here are the top Mexico City stations among men from May of this year, showing how well the dance station does: (the first two are Grupera, what is "regional Mexican" in the US, the third is all sports.

Hombres

1. Ke Buena 92.9 FM con 0.789 puntos de rating
2. La Mejor 97.7 FM con 0.722 puntos de rating
3. W Deportes 730 AM con 0.682 puntos de rating
4. Beat 100.9 FM con 0.615 puntos de rating
5. Mix 106.5 FM con 0.545 puntos de rating
6. Radio Fórmula 104.1 FM con 0.468 puntos de rating
7. Bandolera 1410 AM con 0.399 puntos de rating
8. EXA 104.9 FM con 0.384 puntos de rating

How would those ratings translate over the way they are counted, or portrayed in ratings reports, here in the US?

 

[tall_guy1]

I don't know if there was a problem with EDM, when one looks at how the music industry itself fared with it. When EDM pop was hot in the early 2010s the music industry was still making considerable money despite the fact that the recession was still a factor until mid-decade.

In fact, from 2006 to 2015, according to the RIAA, it was the time that the music industry had the highest number of "units sold" (mostly MP3 download sales) in the industry's history -- 1.4 billion units sold in 2012 alone.

So the music itself was indeed popular, and people thought it good enough to buy it. Of course, thanks to the ITunes, individual song download phenomenon, album sales dropped, and correspondingly the revenues weren't as great as they would have been had the album sales model not been shoved further and further into the background.

But trends happen.


But would TSL also have been low because of streaming's increase in popularity? By 2015, streaming was half of the music consumption, according to the RIAA. How this interpolates with radio listening isn't dealt with on their graphs.

But streaming's popularity more than quadrupled between 2011 and 2016. I'm sure that may have affected radio.

It wouldn't affect the public's taste in style of music, though. I think EDM just lost popularity in 2015 for the same reason disco did in 1980 -- people's tastes changed.

Tempo noticeably slowed in 2016-17 in pop music. It might have been due to the success of 7 years by Lukas graham in 2016, but then trump happened and people were really upset. 2017 then went on to be about the most morose year (amount of depressing songs) I've seen for popular music.

 

[TheBigA]

Tempo noticeably slowed in 2016-17 in pop music.

The Shape Of You is pretty bouncy. Although it reminds me of an older John Mayer song.

 

[Cordelia Chase]

The Shape Of You is pretty bouncy. Although it reminds me of an older John Mayer song.

Not to get off topic, but when did Ed Sheeran switch to Pop? I first heard Sheeran on an Alt station with a song called "The A Team." I don't follow Pop, so I was surprised to see his name on the CHR charts. Then I listened to whatever song it was and realized that he had switched his style! (No hate...Sheeran's done quite well for himself and "The Shape of You" is a great song!)

 

[TheBigA]

Not to get off topic, but when did Ed Sheeran switch to Pop?

When he signed his major label deal in 2011. Before that he was an indie artist. I first saw him as an opener for Taylor Swift during that time. But once he signed with Atlantic Records, all of his singles have been released as pop, and he has only charted in Billboard's Hot 100.