Music Industry

The Ever-Changing (I think its hyphenated)Music IndustryThe mid-eighties began with the oddment of two melodyal icons John Lennon and Bob Marley. This set the scene for a momentous decade. A lot of artists in the 80s were inspired politically and that shined with their songs. For example, 19 by Paul Hardcastle and 99 Luftballoons by Nena.The 80s was also the introduction to the CD and revolutionizing the way consumers listen to music, making it more portable. Now MTV has launched the first music video, Video Kil take the Radio Star by The Buggles. With visual to accompany artists songs, they have another(prenominal) avenue to bewitch consumers with. This led to extravagant production classics like Thriller.A revolution was happening and technological advances have solely just begun to shape the way consumers listen to and share music.With revolutionary music comes controversy, and with music artists now having another media to articulate their mess develop, 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 even banned for sexual content despite their capacious popularity.The 80s was also a break through in Hip-Hop with groups like Beastie Boys and Sugarhill Gang. This wider representation and growth in diversity in the commercial aspect of music also led to growth in consumers.The own 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 Rap feud.The extreme success of N.W.A. followed by releases from Dr. Dre and Tupac established the dominance power and influence of West Coast rap. East Coast Hip-Hop was led by De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest but was incompetent in their get to could never quite match the commercial success of the West Coast. That is until the release of albums from Nas, B.I.G., and Wu-Tang Clan.This feud had everyone loyal listeners get albums to hear the next 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 block off of a golden era in Hip-Hop. Again, music was changing and no one could foretell 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 gainful for artists and (especially) record labels, until the Internet, MP3s, piracy, Napster, iTunes, YouTube and Spotify kicked in over the past 10 years. Over the past couple of recent years, YouTube has adult into a lucrative machine for record labels.Popular videos with millions of hits fuck 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 saw the industry adapt to the digital age of music. Spotify is not just streaming anymore, it is now an authoritativediscovery platform, a network of popular communicate stations, and also the primary way people are listening to music.With the multitude 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 numerous streams they can get. You can even put your song on a Snapchat filter now (New paragraph) As a consumer, its great to be able to discover new artists and groups that I would have never name through CDs or word of mouth. However, as an artist I can understand the frustration in a market that is changing so fast and so quickly.