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Garth Brooks & Streaming

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Here's an article from Rolling Stone that criticizes Garth Brooks for using Amazon as his sole digital streaming service, rather than Pandora, Spotify, or even YouTube:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/...ar-garth-brooks-new-song-all-day-long-696326/

One thing the article ignores is that Garth also has his own channel at Sirius, which is another digital platform that plays his music. It also ignores a fact brought up in a recent CMA-funded study that was very critical of the way streaming services are presenting country music. It said while music fans in general may be streaming a lot of music, it may not be true for country fans. They seem to be more satisfied with the presentation they're getting from FM radio. Garth has also said that country radio is his primary outlet for airplay, and that was good enough to earn him a #1 last year for "Ask Me How I Know," and also win him the 2017 Entertainer of the Year award.

So what is your experience with streaming country music?
 
Not exactly what you asked, but the day after Memorial Day I ate lunch in a restaurant that has Sirius XM. Usually it's an oldies station of some sort, but on this day it seemed to be a Garth Brooks station and a voice (not sure whether it was a DJ or recording) was claiming these are the songs Garth likes. I wasn't crazy about them myself.

And my experience with radio is this: WBRF in Galax VA does a very good job with country music before 5 in the afternoon on weekdays. WESC in Greenville SC, which I hear when I go to the mountains plays a number of songs I like.

Any other FM station, not counting translators, you use that to make your crops grow.

A number of AM stations I've tried sound good.

Garth has good songs and songs I don't like. "Friends in Low Places" is the best.
 
Honestly, I'd never noticed that Garth songs didn't show up on Pandora or Spotify. I like most of his songs when I hear them, but apparently am not a big enough fan to have specifically requested one!
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
Honestly, I'd never noticed that Garth songs didn't show up on Pandora or Spotify. I like most of his songs when I hear them, but apparently am not a big enough fan to have specifically requested one!
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His absence from YouTube is very noticeable. No Vevo videos, not fan-created lyrics videos, nothing. Occasionally someone will post concert video they've managed to capture but it usually doesn't stay posted long. If you enter, say, "Garth Brooks The Dance" in the search bar, you'll get an awful lot of average Joes singing the song, but never Garth himself.
 
Although Garth's only digital partner is Amazon, he's giving his fans a lot of bonuses for them to go out of their way. For example, fans who pre-order his next album will not only receive a discount on it, but they'll also get two free songs, including the new single. So he obviously has a closer relationship with Amazon than most artists have with other streaming sites.
 
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