>>14287275Spotify does infact offer lossless audio if you're on desktop, providing 320kbps mp3 which is functionally identical to FLAC and only has problems if you were to re-encode it for some god forsaken reason. You're welcome to provide me a more accurate source that includes the data from itunes if it's available, but the simple fact is that it's not because they don't publish it, and since you have nothing but your fucking conjecture that somehow iTunes is still the most popular streaming service in Japan despite the data showing otherwise, I'm going to call you a fucking retard yet again for buying into your own narratives so hard that you can't accept that your hypothesis was wrong when presented with fucking data that suggest you're wrong.
While it's not a fucking perfect sample, you would have to show that there is some fucking massive bias to say that the audience that consumes digital idol media like vtubers and digital idol related music in an im@s producer would somehow explain a 3x difference in plays per month at a minimum. Meanwhile, while I'm citing sources and survey data, you have nothing but your personal ancedotes about how streaming totally isn't a thing in Japan and if it is, it's these obscure services that only audiophiles care about when the average listener doesn't give a flying fuck about it. Show me some fucking data that the people who use streaming services are going to be introducing some huge bias in the resulting data by oversampling from a certain population group and how that pertains to popularity, or sit down and shut the fuck up because you have nothing but your personal conjecture to back it up with, because a sample of at a minimum of 150k people assuming literally every one of them listened to Tako, which they didn't, is such a massive N for statistics that the margin of error is infinitesimal, and the sample size of 1.4k for the study on which streaming services are used is also more then enough to generalize the population of Japan to say that 1/3 of the people who consume streaming music use Spotify in some shape. If we use the conservative estimate of 15% of music sales from your article, which assumes no growth this year with the pandemic, that would mean people who use Spotify are accounting for about 5% of music sales in Japan which is hardly some uberhardcore niche that's going to be introducing bias. The only real source of bias would be that it's likely to be young people instead of the older generation, but good news. That bias is applied equally to the people listening to Tako and Suzy, and also is unlikely to matter given the age demographics of the people interested in the two of them.
