The blues, the musical genre, have had a characteristically difficult time, and have been financially suffering. Now, if there’s a genre that is downright built for such conditions, it’s blues, but the numbers are rough right now for artists. There are glimmers of hope — streaming numbers hit 2.5 billion streams last year, up 41 percent since the 1.7 billion streams in 2020 — but the scattered nature of the genre and the wide number of small artists means that your typical blues musician is not benefiting from the transition to streaming, and lesser-known artists would kill for a chance to make a deal at the crossroads under the current economic conditions besetting the genre.
The “blues” are facing reality?
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