Music Industry

The Ever-Changing (I hark back its hyphenated)Music IndustryThe 1980s began with the final stage of two euphonyal icons John Lennon and bottle cork Marley. This set the scene for a momentous decade. A lot of artists in the 80s were inspired politically and that shined through their songs. For example, 19 by Paul Hardcastle and 99 Luftballoons by Nena.The 80s was as well the introduction to the CD and revolutionizing the way consumers try to music, devising it more portable. manage a shot MTV has launched the first music video, Video Killed the Radio sentiency by The Buggles. With visual to accompany artists songs, they have another avenue to pick up consumers with. This led to extravagant production classics like Thriller.A revolution was contingency and technological advances have only just begun to shape the way consumers listen to and share music.With revolutionary music comes controversy, and with music artists presently having another media to vowelize their messag e, Madonna releases Like a Virgin in 1984. This sent a wave through the decade and the boundaries of what was socially acceptable were pushed to the limits. Some songs were counterbalance banned for sexual content despite their immense popularity.The 80s was also a break through in Hip-Hop with groups like Beastie Boys and Sugarhill Gang. This wider representation and harvest-feast in diversity in the commercial aspect of music also led to growth in consumers.The birth of Hip-Hop in the 80s became a staple of music in the 90s. Hip-Hop stepped away from the soul and flinch themes from the 80s to be dominated by the East Coast-West Coast Gangster pick apart feud.The extreme winner of N.W.A. followed by releases from Dr. Dre and Tupac established the dominance power and watch of West Coast rap. East Coast Hip-Hop was led by De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest but was handless in their attempt to could never quite match the commercial success of the West Coast. That is until the r elease of albums from Nas, B.I.G., and Wu-Tang Clan.This feud had eachone loyal listeners buying albums to hear the future(a) low-blow and cultivated an intensely loyal consumer following. Sadly, speculation and business led to the death of Tupac and Biggie and with their death the end of a golden era in Hip-Hop. Again, music was changing and no one could predict the drastic change that was digital. Now at the start of the 00s, iTunes is born and now anyone with a smart catch or computer for pennies per song, instead of buying the whole album.It is now evident that songwriters and artists have to focus wholeheartedly on making each and every song as great as the single. CDs were intensely profitable for artists and (especially) bring down cross offs, until the Internet, MP3s, piracy, Napster, iTunes, YouTube and Spotify kicked in over the past 10 years. Over the past span of recent years, YouTube has grown into a lucrative machine for record labels. familiar videos with milli ons of hits nates be adorned with ads, and YouTube shares that revenue with the copyright holders. Some artists like OK Go have even decided to split from their label and end up making more money from YouTube than they do iTunes. We byword the industry adapt to the digital age of music. Spotify is not just drift anymore, it is now an authoritative honoury platform, a network of popular intercommunicate stations, and also the primary way people are listening to music.With the mint of ways that people can listen to music for free today, now artists are concerning themselves with how to get on every platform and how many streams they can get. You can even put your song on a Snapchat trickle now (New paragraph) As a consumer, its great to be able to discover new artists and groups that I would have never found through CDs or word of mouth. However, as an artist I can understand the foiling in a market that is changing so fast and so quickly.