The discussion about a “soca”-category on digital audio plattforms is coming back – starting at the Saucy’s Trinidad Carnival Blog (also see a comment at bandwaggonist and the facebook group).
Here are my 2cents: The main problem is that soca music is too unknown and also a very small market. Nobody is hating on the Caribbean, soca is just not important enough. The fact that some artists get paid 3000$ for a 15min show in Toronto doesn’t mean that there are significant album sales figures. How many artists are actually doing a full album? 5? 10? (per season/country).. well here you have the main point: the quantity.
Also most of the soca artists who have some chart entries are promoted as r&b or sunshine pop – which is not too bad cause usually that tracks don’t breathe the spirit of the Carnival anymore.. but not really helpfull in promoting the label “soca”.
Still, there are good reasons to have a “soca”-category: soca is the music of a whole region, so it would be nice to have at least a “Caribbean”.
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