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On today’s podcast episode, we discuss the battle between linear TV and CTV, one mobile device metric that is going down, and a surprising finding about which age group uses YouTube the most. Join Senior Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, Principal Forecasting Writer Ethan Cramer-Flood, and Senior Director of Forecasting Oscar Orozco. Listen everywhere and watch on YouTube and Spotify.
So something that conventional wisdom might have already told you, but old songs defined here as released over a year and a half ago and now represent 70% of the US music market according to music analytics firm MRC Data. So 70% of the music we listen to is old music. That's up from 65% in 2020, which is a pretty sizable jump.