How do you think music will change in the next 20 years?

Posted by Rich in Music

Music is constantly evolving. And like everything else in our lives, it's been evolving especially quickly since the advent of the microprocessor and the internet. Who could've anticipated dubstep in 1950, eh?

For this bounty, we won't ask you to make such a far-reaching prediction. Just cast your minds forward a modest 20 years and tell us how you think music will have changed. Consider current and emerging technologies, the changing tastes of different demographics, the maturation of streaming and anything and everything else you think might have an impact!

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Created at 11:21pm, 6th August, 2024. Page last updated at 12:52am, 20th October, 2024.
Deadline at 11:00pm, 21st August, 2024.

Submissions (15)

Shovel8/21/2024

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I genuinely feel like we’re going to be in an age where most music is going to be AI. The idea of concerts and shows will be done mostly virtually or using a headset just like Justin Bieber did during Covid times.

Saying that tho, I do feel like real artists with proper voices may become a novelty idea so I reckon they’ll be more of like a cult following!

Asim8/21/2024

More immersive. More stiumlatiin for kids with Adhd, i think ai will impact it and hopefully Vr videos will help make music feel more immersive

Braulio M Lara 🔹8/21/2024

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The music is very cyclical from Drums , wind instruments and cord to electronic or folklore

in my opinion the humanity will discover new rhythm 🥁 from India , Australia, Tibet , Siberia or Africa mixing with new electronic sounds and off course the AI will give cyber voice and new version of dead singer made it by computer (today they do it)

in conclusion a big mix of new things but a big doses of the music that we hear all the time

good or bad we always can back to the classic

Deleted user8/21/2024

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It is difficult to predict what music will be like in 20 years, but you only have to think about how in 2004 compact discs were still used and how in less than 20 years they were displaced by streaming services.

Based on what we have observed over the last 20 years, and in light of today's technology, I believe that independent online music distribution will continue to consolidate and more and more major labels will lose ground.

I believe that the emergence of artificial intelligence will be key for the industry, both for the commercial part and for production and composition.

On the other hand, online platforms will continue to expand and take music around the world and it will become increasingly easier to access all the musical production on the planet.

Toretto 708/21/2024

Today's music cannot be separated from EDM, it can be concluded that in the future it will be like futuristic rhythms and contain varied bass. Or on the contrary, we are bored with modern nuances which often don't have a feeling of art in them. so we choose to return to classical music