Will We Ever Run Out of New Music? 

Will We Ever Run Out Of New Vsause Videos? That's the real question.

So you're saying that there are more remixes of Old Town Road than atoms on earth

honestly: even if there was a finite amount of music that could be created, we are likely to forget about certain pieces over time resulting in us rediscovering old pieces without realizing it

How to make a Vsauce video: Step 1: Write a thesis Step 2: take the opposite of your thesis Step 3: prove the opposite of your thesis in the video Step 4: say "Or is it" and prove your original thesis This is what the result js: Hey, Vsause! MICHAEL HERE! Did you know that (FALSE STUFF) Or is it? (PROVES THAT THIS STUFF IS FALSE)

Every Artist would just sue each other in 500k years

This guy's got the scientific answer to all the stupid questions I ask to myself

Seeing him holding that CD makes me feel old… time flies so fast wow

Ten years later, this was the first vsauce video I ever saw and it changed my life forever. No joke. Thank you michael.

So you’re saying there’s some fire ass music that we will never hear?

I really love how timeless these older videos are, the way micheal “is” has stayed the same, which is great

now i know why gangsta's paradise was sounding a bit like pigstep's chorus

Idk when u factor in different bpms, tuning systems, odd time signatures, different instruments, and polyrhythms, it’s pretty hard to run out of new music

This guy must have ripped legs with all the squats he's doing between takes in pretty much all his videos I've seen so far.

1,200 years worth of songs and here I am listening to the same 3 songs everyday.

Summary: We will never run out of music, even though it is finite because of the patterns and melodies that interest us.

2^211,000,000 gives me comfort. I legit was thinking we'd run out of new music. We've got like 80 Billion years left, I doubt we'll get through it all in that time

once you start watching these videos you cant stop

"63" oh okay that's a pretty good comparison "million" ....

2:29 SIKE! THATS A LOOOOOOOONG NUMBER!

I feel that we can never truely run out of songs, sound design is a major distinguishing factor. There are also the fact that playing with speed, volume, lyrical style, instrument combination. Often people forget to take these things into account. Another way to differentiate style is using key changes, or playing slightly out of tune for effect, etc.

At least we have toto Africa

"Will we ever run out of original music?" **Plays the same sci-fi song he uses in almost every Vsauce video**

I feel like in the radio they are already reusing 80 percent of old music and adding speed and bass to it, so yeah I think we have already ran out of new music

I was 11 when these videos came out. I think I heard the name *vsauce* back then but I didn't had an internet connection to check things out. I didn't know English very well either. Recently I found this channel and since then, I'm glad that I found it and getting to learn all these new stuffs

Does this mean that, given enough time, somebody will have the exact same DNA as a person that lived a billion years ago due to a finite genome sequence?

Micheal: 63 Me: okay that quite a - Micheal: million Me: WTF

I wonder how many people randomly recreated melodies of other songs exactly down to the beat without ever knowing it.

its been a decade abd we havent ran out yet. going strong

Hey, Vsauce, Michael here. We already ran out of music, and as always, thanks for watching. (outro music plays)

We Sauce *U.S.S.R. Anthem plays*

V sauce I personally had this theory as a kid but I think you should make a video about how difficult history class in school will be in the future

I've always wondered. Is there a limit to what we can create?

As a musician, this is the only thing I've had an existential crisis about...

6:55 nostalgia from that old youtube UI

I wonder - over the years, has the space of comfortable music expanded, or fragmented? What an interesting area of research that would be!

That’s it, from now on all my songs will be 5 minutes and 1 second.

The ITunes store contains 28million songs But not a single song by Tool.

Well the Chainsmokers have.

Bollywood already did.

1:13 CDEEZ NUTS

I love when things are getting serious, this tune plays. It starts at about 0:50.

man, its good to know i had the same philosophical thoughts at the age of 7. makes me feel smart.

Awesome. Just Awesome.

Good news, we will never run out of ragtime!

Interesting to see, that back then, spotify wasn't a thing, yet.

Most mainstream artists are already recycling :')

Im glad you always end on a nice note, sometimes i get to stoned and your videos trip me out

6:50 Old RU-vid looks weird

This means that if I had a truly had a random music generator that could produce every possibile combination of digital song, it would eventually produce Adolph Hitler singing the US national anthem.

The amount of music in this video has tripled at least probably because of all those old town road remixes

by the time we get to the end of all of the possible combinations of notes, nobody will remember the first ones. so we can just go around and around.

Why does this video feel like it was just released yesterday

Will we run out of music? Micheal: Yesn’t

*what if you nightcore it over and over again?*

Love that you linking axis of awesome! Love that song 😂

We’ve all heard the 2-5-1 so many times but each musician gives it a unique flavor. Therefore music will always be “new” if different people keep making music.

So many different songs out there... THEY WHY THE FUCK DO THEY PLAY THE SAME 3 FUCKING TAYLOR SWIFT SONGS OVER AND OVER ON THE RADIO!?...

We already have run out of music. Thanks Jake Paul

This video is 10 years old, but I hope someone who'll watch it will find this interesting. It is possible to prove mathematically that two notes aren't good together, so yeah, the number of all audio files is fucking huge, but 90% of that will be gibberish, some of that will be random sounds, and only a tiny bit will contain actual notes that make sense. But since the limit when you write music is creativity, and considering the fact that a lot of melodies are pretty similar, it would still be almost impossible to run out of good melodies.

This was a question I used to think about, as nowadays the music industry is mostly surviving on 'remakes', so I used to think whether in near 5-10 yrs new and nice songs won't be made, no one would be to make new songs, just remixes, remakes.

next video, "How many pixels are there in real life?"

The whole point of music is to connect using similarity. We've always been singing songs about the same themes since the dawn of time and we still haven't gotten bored yet.

I'd adore an updated version of this

Michael has always been thanking me for watching, but I've never thanked him enough for making videos

Michael is that smart kid that did every GCSE possible

As long as Progressive Rock bands keep writing 10+ min songs we are safe.

The title seems like the kind of question where you’d think “definitely not” but it turns out the answer is yes. But no, definitely not. Especially if you listen to reasonably unique music there’s just so many small details that go into making a track exactly the way it is. Sure there may be songs of similar genre but there’s a practically infinite amount of unique songs left to be made.

0:32 I like how he just moves past that truth bomb he dropped on music lovers.

Michael's videos are like 10 years old but still in 1080p I'm glad people from future can watch it easily bcz of that

I came here to learn about music and ended up finding out obamas last name.

this video is a blast from the past

Just talking about the limitations of note combinations? YES, SCIENTIFICALLY, IT MIGHT BE FINITE. But think about the melody as a canvas, and harmony is the coloring materials, vice versa. Music can only be finite if you think scientifically, but the possibilities are endless if you really think about it heartfully. Sounds like you only talk about simple melodies. It’s not just about note combinations, what makes music nearly "infinite” is when you add the concept of RHYTHM, DIFFERENT HARMONIC VARIATIONS, TEMPO, etc. A simple note combination can be used as a sample, but it doesn't end there entirely, different people can use the same note combinations but implement a different type of rhythmic patterns in it, and different sets of notes as its harmony, and can sound unique to each other, and still each one of them is a NEW FORM OF MUSIC, that's just talking about simple note combination with different implementations, but now think about complex note combinations, hopefully that's starting to make better sense. Music isn’t just about the melody, it can be something different such as just rhythmic composition, just a harmonic beat with no voicing notes in it and it’s still “MUSIC”, therefore I can say that music would never reach its end point someday. If you only listen to a few genres, this can appear true to your mind, but MUSIC itself has a large variety of genres. And there is a big possibility for new more genres to rise in the near future, which means there is another empty space for creativity waiting to be filled for decades again. I believe that those who says music will ran out, are those people who have very tiny understanding of the music itself. If you’re non-musician, it is easy to imagine that music will easily ran out using sets of scientific reasoning, but if you’re in the field of musician-alike and also writes music, was creative enough and has a huge understanding of the art itself, you can clearly realise intuitively of how infinite the possibilities are. If you have small range of musical knowledge, it is VERY EASY to form reasonings in your mind to convince yourself that it is finite. You shall not be fooled only with the note combinations in the keys, because it’s like saying that a story is already written by someone else before because all the words used in the story were already used by someone else in the past. Music shouldn’t be treated as a finite art just focusing on the combinations of the keys to form a melody, remember - it’s not just about the melody, there is a rhythm, there is a harmony, the stimulation that it provides, the sentimental value that a piece genuinely had. Music isn't just an art, it is more than what any science can explain about it.

the background music is really similiar to the depressing minecraft music. just saying.

So, basically it's just the Library of Babel but in audio version?

1:00 Shazam wasn't around back then haha

The tricky part is. Majority of artist who wrote similar song does not necessarily copy or plagiarism the other. Its just coincidentally similae because human brain gravitates into the melody/pleasing sound. Its like saying who invented the first cooked beef. Every cave man can discover it.

As a musician, this is amazing to think about :) Checking out WeSauce!

..and every conversation you didn't have with Beck, Beethoven, Michael, and every other human being who ever lived. Every cat, dog, dolphin, polar bear, grasshopper, etc... too. Contained in 2^211,000,000 tracks is a track of you repeating the word moist 10 times while sloths fornicate in the background, a track where you say moist 11 times while sloths fornicate, and a track where you say the word moist 10 times again but this time it is bears. Then every other animal and every number of times you can say the word moist in 5 minutes. Now every other word. Now words that aren't really words like Bliznorp and Zikkyzikky. Also, it would contain variations for different ages and amounts of phlegm in your throat or nasal congestion. Now repeat that process for everyone else who ever lived. It is a totally far out big number. Bigger than gigantic. So enormous it makes unfathomably huge look quite small. Smaller than small, actually. Take the single biggest thing you can think of now square it and you still aren't even close.

Happy 11th birthday you freakish video

oh yeah, it's about damn time to recommend me this masterpiece of video

6:31 My entire childhood was a lie.

Just watched after 10 years. And surprisingly amazing video with proper research and analysis

i have always wanted to know this!! im so glad this showed up on my recommended

this dude is great, he thinks of all the best topics, I've ALWAYS wondered this, and many of other thngs he's done vids on

One hundred twenty three decillion, five hundred eleven nonillion, two hundred and ten octillion, nine hundred seventy five septillion, two hundred and nine sextillion, eight hundred sixty one quintillion, five hundred eleven quadrillion, five hundred fifty four trillion, nine hundred twenty eight billion, seven hundred fifteen million, seven hundred eighty seven thousand, thirty six. There. I feel happy now.

I feel so weird when I watch such old videos

9 years later and I'm still coming back to watch

Nobody would ever hear every song ever so everybody will always hear new music.

Ah yes: Shrek Sherk Shork Shrok All in one song

Also, this: "The number of possible melodies is virtually infinite. Melodies are sequences of musical notes played one after another, and the possibilities for arranging these notes are vast. The number of potential melodies depends on various factors, including the length of the melody, the range of available notes, the rhythmic patterns used, and the musical style or genre. To give you an idea of the magnitude, let's consider a simple example. Suppose we have a melody consisting of only eight notes, and each note can be chosen from a standard Western chromatic scale (12 possible pitches). In this case, the number of possible melodies would be 12^8, which is approximately 68.7 million. However, this calculation doesn't account for other musical elements such as rhythm, dynamics, articulation, and phrasing, which greatly expand the possibilities. Additionally, if we consider longer melodies or incorporate more complex musical elements, the number of potential melodies becomes astronomically large. It's important to note that not all possible combinations of notes would necessarily be considered musically pleasing or meaningful. Musical composition involves making artistic choices and adhering to certain rules and conventions that help create coherent and aesthetically pleasing melodies. In summary, while the number of possible melodies is technically infinite, the practical limitations of human creativity, musical conventions, and the desired aesthetic qualities of the melody narrow down the choices to a more manageable and meaningful range."

Man is asking the real questions, I've been thinking about this one every time I fire up my Fruity Loops studio...

"Will we ever run out of new music?" *Same exact Jake Chudnow song used in every Vsauce video begins*

It's a long time before we run out of music. But, will we ever run out of *good* music?

"it even contains conversations you didn't have with your parents" 💀💀💀

Well 10 years since this video came out and we already ran out of new music. We now listening to remixes of remixes.....

Vsauce: Will we ever run out of new music?? AI: hold my Neural Network.

Something tells me Zipf is to blame for this...

You do have a point, when you said it take one or two notes to sound like a similar tune, it reminded me how in my school program two notes sounded similar to the Back to the Future theme from the beginning of part 2

We'll never run out of new music, but we might run out of *good* new music. Some might say we already have.

Will we ever run out of new vsauce videos is the question i want to ask