When I was younger, I remember always going out and buying CD's/Singles from my pocket money on a weekly basis! Now I can barley remember the last time I bought a CD/Single CD. I think that quite a lot of people would be able to relate too this? Now filesharing is available, it is a lot cheaper/easier to just type in what song you want and hit download. Why would you pay the money for it when you can get it for free?
If I cant find the song to download, then I might use Myspace to search for the song under their music section and listen too it their. I think Myspace is great for their music page because when I go on other peoples profiles - (pretty much everyone has a song!) I hear songs that I've not heard before which I then hear and like myself - Great for the artist if I was actually going to buy the CD instead of downloading it!
Lilly Allen made herself on Myspace, and a lot of artists now are doing the same - I think this demonstrates intself the cultural shift caused by the sucess of networking sites which involve music. Loads of people are on networking sites, they where not before, it's like the whole Goebell on Radio - Why was it not being used to persuade aswell as entertain before? If it was a huge part of peoples lifes, this soon changed and it was used for both. Why would industries not use something which is a massive part in society to advertise their band? Obviously because of the whole money thing, but forgetting that - Networking sites provides them with a larger audience to advertise too I think.
Bands can make it through networking sites by sending people messages etc and asking them to listen to their stuff, etc, I dont actually know how else they make it from networking sites - other than people just generally coming across their music. I do personally find it annoying though when bands add me on Myspace, as I'm not really interested in listening to their Music - But thats me, what about everyone else?
I'm not sure what's going to happen in the future in regards to it - changing popular music and whether we will still need media companies if we can produce and distribute the content ourselves, but I already do not need media companies (I do still use them for films though, even though I could download these online - doesnt this say something about the fact that perhaps people in society will always need media companies, even if it is in a smaller way than it was years ago?)
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How long do you think bands would last if there was no music industry to promote them?
Do you think it would be possible to become internationally famous?
How many young musicians want to get invlved with the business side? Organising tours etc. How could the Inet create an alternative media economy based on free downloading by peer-to-peer fan/theives? Wouls the Artic Monkeys and Lilly Allen be as big as they are if there wasn't a business to 'buy them up'?
Perhaps it's just that Sony et al have less need to subsidise acts that never find a commercial audience. Instead, the acts spend out on promoting themselves and the A&R men don't even have to leave their offices to check them (and their fanbase) out? In the end, perhaps it's just part of the trend towards making professionals bear all their own costs, whilst big business buy the rights to creative materials?
I dont think bands would last very long at all if their was no music industry around to promote them! Although I think the likes of online advertising etc, enhances their chances of making it, I do not think that it is solely responsible and I do think that music industries need to, and will, stay around. When the next great website comes along which doesnt have room for music advertising - what will they do? They need music industries to keep the industry alive.
I think that people could become internationally famous via the internet, and I do think they might have more sucess in doing so via the internet instead of in real life, because the internet reaches a much larger scale of audience tha what music industries would be able too. (Unless they sent the artist on an expensive world tour!) however, it is impossible for me to say as I do not know nor understand how artists suceed in other countries.
Lilly Allen and the like NEED people to BUY their stuff to make them what they are, if everyone just secretly downloaded their stuff, then they wouldnt even know that people where listening too their music! This is the big danger with music downloading. Although the likes of Napster etc have been closed, their is still other methods of getting hold of music which is not talleyed for the charts etc or paid for.
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