Itchyworms speaks about effect of streaming on consumer’s music preference

Romar Fernando

July 14, 2020

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  After releasing so many singles for the past six years, Pinoy rock band Itchyworms admitted that music streaming affects the industry they belong most especially in the surge of the coronavirus pandemic.

  The band has leaned towards releasing tracks from time to time because of the effects of streaming to the consumers. “Not a lot of people buy albums anymore… The boom of streaming didn’t necessarily make albums obsolete. However, it has become so much easier for people to pick only the songs they want to listen to,” frontman Jugs Jugueta said in an interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

  “But we still love the album format. We still have the desire to create. Iba pa rin ‘yun … having a packaged body of work. And as fans, we also love listening to the other tracks in our favorite artists’ albums—not just the singles. We love finding hidden gems and rarities you won’t get in the singles,” vocalist-drummer Jazz Nicolas said.

  “We ended up having a collection of songs—most of which were created during the enhanced community quarantine. And so, we decided to package them around that concept,” Jugueta added.

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