The Music Industry.

[coloradodem2005]

I heard a report on the news that the Music industry may be waking up. They were talking about concert sales and how the old timers are getting the sales. Furthermore, they talked about licensing music for legal downloads and cutting CD prices.


The thing that people talked about is how people want music and bands with logevity. THey mentioned that the days of boy bands an Brittany Spears may be over. Do you think this is true?

[Kamika]

1. might be

I can't really think of a boy band that's big anymore.. I'm just scared that stuff like Brittney still sells.

I do think that the boy band era is over ..

(remembers my 25+ posters of kevin from bsb)

[LastKnight]

2. god i hope the...

boy band era is over, and i hope spears falls from musical power soon too... what happened to musicians with actuial talent?

-LK

[trag]

3. I don't know but,

When I can but a DVD movie cheaper than my favorite band cd, something is seriously wrong here. Cosidering how much it cost to make a movie over a record.

[sistersofmercy]

4. Well, I think the boy band thing is definitely over but also I believe

people are tired of the same ol', same ol'. The only new music cd's I've bought in the last year or so, have been Norah Jones, Pepe and The Bottle Blondes and Bare Naked Ladies. Most of the cd's I buy are digitally remastered renditions of my old all time favorites or world music. American pop music today mostly "says nothing to me about my life." Sure there are various songs I happen to like but I'm not going to buy a cd for one song. I'm perfectly content to hear it on the radio every now and then. Also, I'm pretty miffed about the piracy issue, bad PR for the music industry. It's not the piracy hurting sales, it's the lack of original talent imo.

[ButterflyBlood]

5. the boy band era is over, but it's nothing out of the ordinary

basically we're at the period like in the early 90's when grunge was taking over from New Kids On The Block, Tiffany and hair metal (which was the Korn/Limp Bizkit crap of the era). It's just following the traditional cycle.

[coloradodem2005]

6. If Korn and Limp Bizkit are hair metal...

....what is Grunge for this era.

[G_j]

7. how can an artist

achieve "longevity" when they can't even get off the ground with the mainstream music industry?
As an example, the sales of Springsteen's first LP would have meant he would have been unceremoniously dumped by today's industry standards.

[coloradodem2005]

8. THat is true with a lot of LP's of that day.

Many artists and bands had to pay their dues before they made it big. In many cases, their first couple of albums would not sell that well. THen they would take off like a rocket the way Springsteen and many others did. This is true for singer songwriters as well as more instrumentally oriented bands.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. Random fun fact not too many people know:

There is a 2 1/2 percent tax on ever CDR or RW that you buy that goes to the music industry to off set losses of us copying CDs or whatnot. Thought you guys would like to know that.
Duckie

[mvd]

10. There have been a few positive steps

But they need to unify and go further - they should be open to an optional internet tax. The internet tax plan for downloads could be offered when you subscribe.

I have noticed an increase in the quality of music since the late 90s. I love the new pop/rock style, and bands like Fountains Of Wayne and The Shins are great.

[stopbush]

11. Considering the genre the showed the largest percentage of growth

last year was the supposedly dead CLASSICAL market with a 20% increase in sales, they may be on to something (though classical remains a niche market by any measure one wishes to employ).

[T Bone]

12. People who buy classical music pay their bills on time

and have the best credit ratings.
I read it somewheres.

[CBHagman]

13. I'm the exception to that, I think.

Though I hope I'm getting better. :-)

Seriously, I am heartsick over the state of the media these days. I watch Classic Arts Showcase on a local station and see classical music performances from the old Bell Telephone Hour and things of that sort, plus jazz sets and concert selections from current classical artists. Yet my local public radio station slashed its classical music hours, and it's hard to find anyone with an adventurous play list of any sort, no matter what the musical category. I read in Billboard magazine that country artists who don't fit the current format (think Ricky Skaggs, Lyle Lovett, June Carter Cash) can't get airtime.

It's hard not to believe that the country is going to hell in a handbasket, especially the pop culture portion of it. And don't get me started on the film industry...