And unknown bands don’t need to go to music festivals to be “discovered” by industry execs anymore.
Greta Van Fleet is a perfect example of using youtube for that purpose.
Spotify dominates access to the marketplace and requires that you go through approved companies to list your songs and controls playlists and only pays the hit artists regardless how many subscribers pay to listen only to your music.
82% of the money comes via streaming the rest is sales via digital download LP, CD, Tape, and DVD. They wants physical and virtual sales to die.