Take any single year over the past 100 years and the majority of music produced that year sucks. The same goes for movies, art, plays, etc. The music that gets remembered 10 or 60 years later is obviously the best music from that period. To compare the best music of the past 100 years to whatever is being produced now is not an apples to apples comparison.
The economics of the recording and music distribution industries has radically changed in the past 20 years. The end result is that there is vastly more music being commercially produced, but it is now the listeners' responsibility to find it. Radio stations, magazine reviews and record stores only hint at what's available. Another economic change is that streaming services make it impossible for a songwriter to live on the proceeds of their songs.
And if anything above is too complex or just plain wrong, we can always blame Sweden.
The economics of the recording and music distribution industries has radically changed in the past 20 years. The end result is that there is vastly more music being commercially produced, but it is now the listeners' responsibility to find it. Radio stations, magazine reviews and record stores only hint at what's available. Another economic change is that streaming services make it impossible for a songwriter to live on the proceeds of their songs.
And if anything above is too complex or just plain wrong, we can always blame Sweden.