#streaming-impact

#streaming-impact

This was destined to be a Christmas-y week on the Hot 100: The week's chart reflects seven full days of holiday listening streaming, airplay, sales spanning from Dec. 19 through Dec. 25, with no post-holiday lull to even lightly depress the numbers. Holiday songs now take up every one of the top 24 spots. About this time last year, they only took up 16. Still, it's remarkable to examine how thoroughly the Hot 100 has been transformed in the streaming era.

It was a kind of simpler time, and maybe that is more romantic, he said. And there were some greats, like Nancy Myers and Nora Ephron, who did some brilliant stuff in the 90s: When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, they're just brilliant films.

Things used to be so simple. A movie opened in theaters, and if its total box office was lower than what it cost to make and market it, minus the half theaters took, we could easily call it a flop. It was dead in the water. Some were worse than that and were true bombs, though we're splitting hairs on the terminology here.

Formed in Fife, Scotland in 1996, The Beta Band were recipients of one of those mega-major label deals, signing to Parlophone Records, which was then also home of Radiohead and Kylie Minogue. They had immediate early success with their debut, 1997's Champion Versions EP, which mixed folk, prog, hip hop, trip hop and the Manchester rave scene into a unique sound.