With multiple livestreams hosting more than 3,000 listeners around the clock, as well as more than 2 million subscribers, what started as a labor of love between him and close friends in the Netherlands has blossomed into a 25-person team, serving as a promotional channel, label, and publisher for artists across the world. Since his earliest releases, Nehru has continued to polish his already pristine craft, such as on 2018′s Elevators: Act I & II. Paying respect to hip-hop skits of the Omar Nadir golden era of rap, flowing equally effortlessly over fuzzy jazz tracks and Kanye West rants, Nehru belongs as much to the golden era as he does the era to come.
The streams don't require someone to be behind the boards at all times, unlike the constant monitoring demanded by any FCC-ordained FM station, but the music rotation is constantly updated with new, handpicked tunes—a stark contrast from the algorithmic mandates handed down by Spotify or Apple Music. However College Music noticed a growing trend of its live viewers using the YouTube chat box to talk about how stressed they are, or how depressed they're feeling, or - in a small number of the most extreme cases - how they're experiencing suicidal thoughts.
Chillhop music is another popular lo-fi destination on YouTube, it has 1.4 millions subscribers but no longer runs a live stream Operating at a smaller scale than Chilled Cow or Chillhop music are the bootleg boy (640K subscribers), NEOTIC (559k subscribers), nourish (290k subscribers), Ryan Celsius (260k subscribers) and Mellowbeat Seeker (267k subscribers). The term had since been used over the years in long psychedelic audiovisual experiences posted to YouTube from channels like Amanda Darling. YouTube's lo-fi hip-hop community has for years offered a place to virtually gather, do homework, and find comfort in the random messages of strangers that populate in live chats.
Now that more people are spending time at home, those streams become a constant. This is a full list of the best YouTube tags for music video beats to help you make the most of keywords. While the studying anime girl is the face of lo-fi hip-hop, the first lo-fi hip-hop livestream I clicked on displayed a soft pink sakura tree growing on the brink of a hazy cliff over an ocean. Luke Pritchard and Johnny Laxton, the duo behind College Music — one of the longest-running live streams dedicated to lo-fi chillhop — say they've seen various waves of increases since the stream started in 2016, but nothing compared to right now. The original 'Study Girl', synonymous with the LoFi Study Beats channel.