Thanks to the folks at streaming platform Spotify, you can now create your own dream festival lineup to pine over for decades to come.
For as long there have been bands playing shows, the inevitable question has been asked; “What would be your dream festival lineup?”
Sure, plenty of people would use the chance to reunite or resurrect some big names like The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, or The Smiths, but others would just choose a list of their firm favourites.
Now, Spotify is taking the guesswork out of the whole process with a new app.
Using your listening history of the last month, six months, or all time, Festify helps to collate all of your most-listened to artists of these time periods and puts them into a pretty nifty looking festival poster.
Needless to say, with unprecedented access to such amazing artists, there are some lineups being curated that will undoubtedly make any music-lover’s mouth start to watering.
Check out some examples below.
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lol spotify made a festival lineup for me based on what i’ve listened to the very very most and believe me i would pay twenty thousand dollars to go to this pic.twitter.com/10GR1lWzoJ
— brit o’brien (@britobrien_) April 13, 2019
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In recent news, Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek recently explained that he feels the platform has made it easier than ever for artists to make a living from streaming music.
“Back in 2000, 2001, at the very, very peak of the music industry, peak of CD… Our estimate is that there were about 20 to maybe 30,000 artists that could live on being recorded music artists,” Ek stated.
“Why? Well, because, again, the distribution costs so much, which ended up being that there’s very few artists that could even get distributed to begin with. And because the costs were fairly high for a person buying the music, you ended up going with what you knew and wouldn’t take that much risk on unknown artists.”
“So in the world with streaming, what’s really interesting is the alternative cost for you to listen to something new is virtually zero,” he continued. “It’s just your time.”
“And because of that, you do listen to a lot more music than you did before and you listen to a bigger diversity of artists than you did before which in turn then grows the music industry.”
Of course, this appears to be in direct contrast to the opinions of famous musicians including Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, and Misfits guitarist Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein.
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