The music industry has been hit pretty hard. The proliferation of music sharing and the recession have pushed overall music sales continually downward. The reality is that major record labels were also extremely slow to react to the situation and instead of pro-actively looking for alternatives; they stuck their heads in the sand. The cookie-cutter, American idol approach to pop music is still driving the industry and the target market for this type of music simply has more free options to simply acquire free copies. The new reality of the industry means that up and coming artists need to fend for themselves but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

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