It's clear that we have a decibel problem

The examples on this page clearly show the increase in compression and volume pushed beyond the limit of clipping, which we discussed here.
The title is clear: "The Death Of Dynamic Range."
Apparently, pop music is now mixed and compressed in the same way as advertising: almost zero dynamic range and a high, fixed, stable volume in an attempt to get through to the radio.
The same article also notes another interesting thing: sometimes the same piece is compressed differently for the Western market than for the Asian one, which suggests that some parameter unknown to me is taken into account in the creation of the master (the average level of the radio? Audience habits?). But, thinking about it, it could also be a coincidence: a different mastering engineer interpreting the management's instructions according to his own judgment.

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