
3: Why did 1959's album charts vanish?
Lateral with Tom Scott
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Is There a Musician's Union?
I feel like there should be a musician's union. I'm also thinking, so the charts are meaningless these days. This is harsh to the charts, right? I don't think they've really meant much since buying records got replaced with streaming. Did you see Josh Peters' new video in which he successfully bought his way into the UK top 40? By just getting like 5000 downloads on a rubbish song he made. That's not really a union, but it's kind of representative of sorts. Actually, yeah, there is. Like very tangentially.
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