The Music Industry and Music Genre

As our world today is so controlled by the media, whether it be film or music we decided to look at the music industry for some inspirational ideas for our video, the look of our artist, the record label and the digi-pack. An article was recently published in 'The Times' newspaper regarding the music industry, and after reading this we realised that the current situation for the industry at the moment is a non-productive one. People are far more interested in downloading music illegally or converting it from youtube, hence the music industry is making less money as people are no longer buying the latest CD's. There is literally no money in the music industry at the moment and this was an important topic we researched as it opened our eyes as to how important an artists image is as this is the single thing which could make or break them. Although the music industry has been around since before people can even remember, times have changed a great deal and with the advancement in technology it is no wonder that even though music maybe becoming more popular and there are millions of different varities of artists and music genres, now people are able to access music wherever, whether it be on ipods, blackberrys or MP3's.

The music industry has always been one of competition, however it seems that recently even more rivalry is growing within the different record labels and between different artists. It is often hard to categorise an artist into a specific genre as many artists have different sounding songs, for example some indie, some electro pop, on the same album, therefore can we really portray an artist as being from one single genre? Our research shows that due to the advancement in technology, record labels are often being created by artists themselves, enabling the artists to be their own producers and thus allowing them to sign on different artists. This seems to be the new trend within many artists from different genre's and in actual fact, it makes sense as then the artists are in complete control of their music and how they want to be portrayed, not how their manager or producer thinks they should be.