Comment Re:Lest anyone think the problem is just AI slop (Score 3, Informative) 47
The business side of music has been trying to control how much new music is released ever since reproduction because easy in the early days of printed sheet music.
About 25 years ago a radio station in Melbourne had a contest where bands had to send in an album that was less than a year old and had at least 3 songs that weren't covers. Their listening area was about 3 million people and they got 3,000 entries. To me that implies that there is a band for every thousand people who is producing an album worth of music every year. That would imply there should be about 8 million new albums every year globally.