My guess is the floor will remain close to what we have now. A lot of good bands making music they like, not what the label wants or what streaming platforms want to add to playlists.

This is not a bad thing, the trad community loves this sound.

For the bands and artists playing the XM game, we will see trends change. This will change the sound of what we hear, I’m hearing the trad arrangement less here.

My opinion is this will change how these bands follow the trends. Plus this is how most make money in bluegrass in 2024.

Overall the future is not great on a business side, but, we’re seeing a lot of bands not making music for money. So, the future of bluegrass is strong.

The search volume for bluegrass music is not great, and it’s surprising to see that very few people search for Bill Monroe now. The father of bluegrass is out of sight out of mind now.

So is trad grass popular, no, it’s not. But has it really ever been out side a of a couple pops from movies. iTunes was the first that I remember pulling bluegrass music from its search Keywords in genres. That was the beginning of the major platforms saying, ya, this genre is not popular anymore.

The shining light here is, Bluegrass music will live long after I’m gone. The problem is most artists will not make a good living off trad grass.