Post by shahadat560 on Jan 16, 2024 0:11:40 GMT -5
The closure of entertainment venues or the drastic reduction in their capacity due to the Covid-19 pandemic has reduced their viralization, but also that of the usual summer sonatas that were played in them at full volume. Still, is it true that in 2020 there has been no song of the summer, as some suggest?
In their absence, the formation of what we call an incontestable summer success, such as Bailando by Enrique Iglesias , Despacito by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee or La Bicicleta by Carlos Vives and Shakira, falls this year mainly on radios and streaming platforms .
Compared to the average drop of 11% in reproductions Country Email List that the latter experienced worldwide with the beginning of confinements (and, therefore, the drastic reduction in trips to places of work and study), the figures have recovered up to return them to their status as a musical lighthouse.
According to data from Spotify, the main download-free audio platform, since June 30, hours of global consumption have recovered to pre-Covid-19 levels , especially in Europe and Asia, and all regions have have recovered with the exception of Latin America, which is 6% below its maximum levels.
"The big difference in any case has been the diversification process. Before the hits were very clear and consumption was much more concentrated, with 2 or 3 songs that everyone listened to"
Just look at the reproductions of an artist working on this song of the summer, J Balvin . Between May and July 2019, it obtained an average of approximately 930 million global views, around 74 in Spain. In 2020, with his hit Agua , current number 1 in countries like this, the figures rise to 1,029 million global listeners, 76.6 in Spain.
"The big difference in any case has been the diversification process. Before the hits were very clear and consumption was much more concentrated, with 2 or 3 songs that everyone listened to," the president of Sony Music Iberia explains to Efe. José María Barbat.
In their absence, the formation of what we call an incontestable summer success, such as Bailando by Enrique Iglesias , Despacito by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee or La Bicicleta by Carlos Vives and Shakira, falls this year mainly on radios and streaming platforms .
Compared to the average drop of 11% in reproductions Country Email List that the latter experienced worldwide with the beginning of confinements (and, therefore, the drastic reduction in trips to places of work and study), the figures have recovered up to return them to their status as a musical lighthouse.
According to data from Spotify, the main download-free audio platform, since June 30, hours of global consumption have recovered to pre-Covid-19 levels , especially in Europe and Asia, and all regions have have recovered with the exception of Latin America, which is 6% below its maximum levels.
"The big difference in any case has been the diversification process. Before the hits were very clear and consumption was much more concentrated, with 2 or 3 songs that everyone listened to"
Just look at the reproductions of an artist working on this song of the summer, J Balvin . Between May and July 2019, it obtained an average of approximately 930 million global views, around 74 in Spain. In 2020, with his hit Agua , current number 1 in countries like this, the figures rise to 1,029 million global listeners, 76.6 in Spain.
"The big difference in any case has been the diversification process. Before the hits were very clear and consumption was much more concentrated, with 2 or 3 songs that everyone listened to," the president of Sony Music Iberia explains to Efe. José María Barbat.