Is listening to music as popular as it used to be?

Posted by Other_Exercise@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 37 comments

When I was a teenager, iPods came along, and people loved them. It was the sort of thing you'd ask for parents for and they often couldn't afford one. They were hundreds of pounds. Podcasts were really niche and underwhelming, and the selection was incredibly limited. Often they were just the most boring banter you can imagine. Probably because you couldn't really make money off them then. In the days before ready internet and mobile data , the iPod's key selling point was all the songs it could store. I was always under the impression that folk my age really, really liked music, as in, it was a really big part of their lives. Nowadays, I wonder if social media /tik tok other smartphone fun has somewhat displaced just plain old listening to music. Even these days, I quite rarely dedicate time solely to listen to a song. It always feels like there's other stuff to do.