In 2008, Apple became the largest Music retailer in the US.
Job losses in the UK was estimated at 30,000, due to illegal downloading of songs.
The Music industry is always changing, But is the way it's changing for the better?
It seems that nowadays with the decline of the record there is little to no support for up and coming bands who are trying to make it. Music can be bought and illegally downloaded from the internet. Talent is often questioned when new artists come out. Many people are undercooked due to the way they look. The music itself has changed and the way people feel about the lyrics written have little affect or meaning as they once did.
This is a video of the very first time we saw Susan Boyle first audition on Britian's got talent. When she first walked out people had written her off as a hop hope and laughed a lot at her. She wowed the audience into a standing applause. She is one a very few people who have talent that get picked up for something other then their looks. She was lucky her talent was able to be seen by some top professional judges.
Watching the documentary was a real eye opener for how they can make bad people sound really good. I was watching the part of the documentary where they got that model girl so sing. She wasn't very good but they were able to make her sound good with auto tune correction. I think many people must be using this nowadays. I think The black Eyed Peas are terrible and must use auto tune correction on every word of the song.
I Often like to sit and watch artist perform Live to see how much they really sound like their music when produced from a studio.
Such artist who I feel sound like their CD's are : Muse, Prince, Fleetwood Mac and I know there are thousands more out there but these artist are not always the ones we hear everyday on the Radio or see on MTV.
The X factor judges people on their voices but it seems that majority of people who get through and win are good looking people. I understand that the music industry is a business and people need to make money to survive but people will often go with the quickest way to make a quick buck rather then look and search for the right talent who will inspire people for more then just one song. These pop bands out nowadays seems to only be around for one hit and are then dropped within a year and never heard of again.
The majority of the people who around now in the main spot light never write their own songs or if they do, its usually co written with a professional song writer or a song that is bought from someone else.
The British Invasion
A musical movement of the mid-1960s, the British Invasion was composed of British rock-and-roll whose popularity spread rapidly to the rest of the English-speaking world, especially the United States which, from the beginnings of rock-and-roll music in the early 1950s, had nearly a monopoly on the genre.
The Beatles triumphant arrival in 1964, is widely credited with truly throwing open America's doors to a wealth of British musical talent, and officially beginning what would come to be called—with historical condescension by the willingly reconquered colony—the second British Invasion.
Dusty Springfield was one of the first British artists to have success in America with a number 1 hit.
I like listening to all different types of music from all around the world, and often try and look out for British artists making it over in America. Some British artists which i find to be quite good usually dont make it over here and its the more commercial manufactured people that do.
Other artists to come over from Britain to make it big are:
Rolling Stones, Bee Gee's, Rod Stewart, Elton John,Eric Clapton, John Lennon, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Pink Floyd, The Police,Sting, Phil Collins, WHAM, George Michael, Seal, Spice Girls, Coldplay and James Blunt, Amy Winehouse. These are just a few of hundreds who have had songs out and don well in America.
More recent artist to have come across the pond and do well in America is Adele
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele
I feel that the music industry has changed and in some ways not for the better, it seems that many artists around today are not actually talented and rely on technology to get them selves out there, whether it be by making their voices better or to even the way they look in their videos.
Music from around the world has influence people to do things, with a meaning, but it seems that todays music is sung by a 20 year old who hasn't ever experienced things like what they sing about. Nothing will change tho for the better for a while, and the little people will probably go undiscovered, the problem is, its an expensive business to get into and the people with the money can make the decision's.
