Music is one of the fastest growing industry's, however the once ever popular CD is gone. People no longer rush out to buy the latest single or album of Justin Timberlake, instead it's all about downloading it on to their itunes. People are able to downloading music and sending it to their phones as their latest phone tone or putting it on their own CD's to give to friends. It as had a huge impact on the way music is funded and financed. This means that companies such as Virgin, Woolworths due to the lose of sales severely struggled to keep up, and as a result went busted. Big music stores such as HMV no longer sell singles and the Music charts are mainly based on downloads.
In relation to networking sites, in my experience many bands through the likes of BEBO set up the own web pages in order to encourage fans and also post their latest news and most importantly their upcoming performance dates. There can also put music players on their pages which they can download their music on to for people looking at the page to listen to. Its also a free source which means its a great way to endorse themselves and perhaps 'make it' by breaking through into the music industry.
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Do you think that music will continue to be consued in this way/medium, and how long for? I can see CD's being ousted in the same way VHS tapes have and LP's have. Newspapers have resorted to giving CD's to readers in order to increase circulation, does this show that all other media forms are suffering since the introduction of the net?
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ReplyDeleteummmm good question Mr Bemment. Well i cant think of what the next possible invention would be after the internet therefore i think the internet is the way forward!! i think people will continue to use the internet to source music as quite oftne people get it for free. However in response to your remark about newspapers giving CD's away whilst i remember those good old days, i think now ther've given up that idea. As its not music CD's they giving away its Film DVD's instead as people seem to be more interested in that. I guess its inevitable this area of the market is going to suffer however to be honest i think they'll make it up in another area. For example how often do you now see shops such as clinton cards now selling iTunes cards and such alike.
ReplyDeleteSo, are books the next ones to go then? Waterstone's now even seel E-book readers and offer books for download on their website. And a few months ago there was a whole thing going on when Jamie Oliver's latest book had 'leaked' as a PDF onto the internet, something that up until then was really only a problem for music and film publishers.
ReplyDeleteWell i hope not! Although i do see where you coming from. To be honest how many of us would rather use google books then walk all the way to the library or worse still spend the money on buying new books. It is possibilty that books may be taken over by the digital world. However on the other side of the coin, how many of use enjoy relaxing by the pool on our summer holidays and reading a book or even the idea of lying in bed reading. I doubt people could be bothered carrying around laptops absolutely every where they go and of course the likely hood of people getting internet connections whilst they travel on the train or sit on a long car journey home.
ReplyDeleteNo, I can't see people reading their laptop-screens but those e-book readers are pretty small and easy to carry around.
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cool i checked out the e-book readers. I just dont know, i think it be a shame for us to turn completely digital. I think there's got to be market out there for real books, whatever would be do with out waterstones!! lol i suppose as we continue to to produce new generations, and the kids of today become parents maybe it will change. After all it's the older generations grasping onto the good old days of hand-written letters and printed photo-graphs as oppose to the ever popular digital photo frames... i certainly know my grandparents are!
ReplyDeleteI'll deffinitelly agree that this transition would be a much much slower one, especially considering how much physical books are embedded within our society, PLUS, music-formats have always changed.
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But I do think the change CAN happen, but slowly. The decision of Waterstone's to start offering the e-books online is hardly surprising considering it's (nowadays) the same company and management as HMV and one of the reasons HMV survived where Zavvi didn't is because they jumped onto the download-bandwagon early enough to sufficiently become part of today's music-downloading culture.