Where can I download the latest music? Automatic translate

Here we have some thoughts from music industry participant Peter Vasendin about where to listen to music now in 2022, where you can download it, what channels for the arrival of new fresh songs, what remains and what has appeared. We pass the microphone to Peter.

— First of all, let’s say a few words about what has been happening in the modern music consumption market in recent decades. Since the nineties, digital technologies have increasingly entered our lives and this, on the one hand, facilitates access to music, on the other hand, makes this access less controlled and more accessible from a technical point of view.

The industry has changed a lot - if in the eighties and nineties you needed to buy a CD or cassette or re-record tracks from someone, it was very difficult to transfer music from one medium to another while maintaining quality. Anyone who wanted to listen to it had to buy a disc or cassette. With the advent of the 2000s, we have a digital format that can be endlessly rewritten without losing quality.

Where does this lead?

— On the one hand, sales of traditional music media may be falling, but the opportunities for authors to reach a larger audience have increased significantly. Simply because the entire potential audience already has the basic devices necessary to listen to music. Buying expensive audio components today is the lot of enthusiasts and musical aesthetes.

What sources of fresh songs do we have now?

— In simple terms, this is an opportunity to download fresh Russian songs on some sites, and listen to them on some sites. Sites where people listen to music include, for example, YouTube, Yandex.Music, VKontakte, etc. You buy a subscription or listen for free and as part of the subscription you have access to some library while this subscription is valid. On sites where songs can be downloaded, you choose what interests you, transfer it to your device and then, regardless of the Internet and access to a music service, you can listen to your favorite tracks at any time.

What are these services?

— Among those services that allow you to download new songs to your device, this is, for example, Nomuz, which is now often mentioned, a large library with musical hits by Russian performers and its analogues. First of all, this is convenient for those who travel often, who listen a lot and are often not at a stationary Internet source, but are constantly on the move and would like to always carry their music with them. Have your favorite songs on your device on the road, on a plane, on a train or somewhere in the forest.

And one more question, is this beneficial to the musicians themselves?

— Any musician wants his music to be popular, to be known and his songs to be listened to on every corner. In today’s realities, if you don’t promote your music, if you don’t give it to everyone who wants to listen, then you simply won’t be left behind in history. If you are not Philip Kirkorov and you do not have the opportunity to get coverage on television or radio, you need to do it yourself. Any service that increases coverage solves this problem.