Over forty thousand songs are added to Spotify per day. The modern music market is just like an arms race back in the 20th century, but rather than stocking weapons musicians and copyright companies are stocking music copyrights. They upload tons of music on the internet and most of them are basically listened to by no one. They still doing this because it’s nearly costless and all they need is just maybe one of the ten thousand songs they own goes viral, then it can cover all the costs and profit. Needless to say, those songs can’t be well produced. They may even all from the same template. As more and more rubbish works are being uploaded to the internet, they are not occupying the human society’s valuable storage and make people more difficult to find the music they truly want.
It is just a phenomenon that comes along with the digital music era, which is causing the people who are producing music for the market to care less about the quality of music but about quantity. That is a vicious circle for the music industry. Especially for those online streaming platforms, they need to realise the situation or they could eventually devour themselves as customers lose interest in the unescapable infinite ocean of low-quality music.