Eamon Forde
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80 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5 May
Eamon Forde’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, it's a challenge for every artist to get noticed today.
You've got a kind of double dynamic of the barriers to entry have been greatly lowered in the digital age.
So effectively, anyone can put their music up on a streaming service like Spotify or add it to TikTok's library.
And that's great, and that's a wonderfully egalitarian approach.
But the problem is that there are hundreds of thousands of tracks being ingested into these platforms every day.
I think Spotify...
has well over, I think is it like 150 million tracks.
It's an incredible number that you will never ever be able to listen to.
Then you've got in recent years, the double problem of AI generated music as well.
And then that just goes into this enormous, enormous pool of music that is all competing for attention because in the streaming world, revenue is driven by the number of streams that you get, but it's not generating any money.
So you need to find ways to get people to listen to your music, to listen to it over and over and over again, or people at scale to listen to your music.
So you're competing with a huge number of humans making music and an increasing number of AI tracks.
Yeah, it used to be if you got a decent advance, some of that would go to studio costs, some of that would go to actually your living costs, where you could give up your job and you could focus full time.
And it's such a common thing for small labels or designers of small labels.
to actually have full-time jobs, whether or not they're working in music or they're working in cafes or factories or doing zero-hour contracts.
And then that obviously limits the amount of time that they've got to go on tour because then they're not making money.
So the whole system seems very much stacked against small independent orders just simply because it's very, very difficult to make a living as a musician.
In old money, in the analogue days, it was basically, were you written about in the traditional music press, then maybe that would have filtered into the broadsheets or the tabloids.
Were you getting played on radio?
And back in the days when it was like a handful of radio stations or specialist DJs would play independent music, if you got on there...
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