What Killed the Music Industry???

[Dave24]

Technology

 

[PHamm]

Napster

Yep. Beginning of the end.

 

[Rell84shots]

Payola and lowering the standards are what ultimately did the industry in, Payola has always been around but it was kicked into overdrive by 2007. Radio is always a good barometer to see where music is headed, and radio fell off after 2006 which is why they hire so many comedians as hosts to bring the entertainment because they only play about 20 different songs throughout the day.

 

[Neuromancer]

Muck mouth mumblers.

 

[director_of_bands]

people under mind control who arevobsessed with celebrity and popularity and not finding music that they enjoy on their own

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Cacs

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

The need for numbers. I still don’t understand how streaming works. If I click on a song and listen for 10 seconds is that a stream?

Chance having 100M+ streams in two weeks makes me suspect.

 

[Dad]

Steve Jobs

 

[Crimson_Dynamo]

Streaming, corporations and pandering to the lowest common denominator

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

this, a lot of people get quality of music confused with the success of the music industry

if anything quality of music is lower now than before because the barrier for entry is so much lower with the internet being what it is now, artists and their sounds dont have to be carefully crafted to perfection and anybody can record anything and have it potentially blow up

all of this stuff is making money, the industry is more profitable than ever in all honesty

This.

It's a combination of record companies doing what they can to cut costs and technology. Technology has lowered the barrier of entry for actually producing music. Black bands back in the 70s were Damn near mini Orchestras with with all them dudes on horns, bass, guitar, drums, etc and they were all masters of their own craft. Then the 80s happened and we got more and more use to the digital sound as it began to replace studio musicians. And of course record labels loved this because they didn't have to invest as much into project before an album release.


We'll probably never have that rich sound that existed back then.

 

[clyma est mort]

When CD burners, the MP3 format and broadband (with peer-to-peer apps like Hotline) all landed in 1997-1998 it was curtains for the traditional $16.99/CD business model that record industry fat cats were enjoying. My music purchases dropped to insanely low levels. Then Napster hit in 1999.

 

[Kane1]

Over charging for wack ass music

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

Nothing Killed the Music Industry

It NEVER DIED

it just adapted

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/we-...its-straight-profit-marc-geiger.307783/page-3

And doing better than ever.... unfortunately the artists and producers are not benefitng from it

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

If I’m not mistaken, the music industry is still going strong...

 

[BlackBall]

Independent labels still doing aight