Chronology: Technology And The Music Industry

Music plays a huge roll in the world and in someone’s day to day life. Not a day goes by that one person is not listening to music. In Sound City by David Grohl, “The New Economics of the Music Industry” by Steve Knopper and “Chronology: Technology and the Music Industry by Callie Taintor” all connect to each other to prove differences in music. All over the world, music has changed drastically over the last decade. The music industry has no control because the industry is constantly changing.

In this day and age, technology has become a huge factor in music.Throughout the last decade music has changed just by a board. At first music started out as someone playing live and only people around them could hear them. Then there was a shift towards

For example, Apple has become the world’s number one company that sells music. They have made phones, computer, etc. that have an app built in so one can easily buy music. The advance of technology has also helped change the way a song sounds. Music today has a perfect sound that the last decade was never able to have. What once seemed impossible has become possible. However, with this technology the music industry has exploded and has only gone up in the chain. Just look at this, “By contrast, it took 11 years for color television manufacturers to sell one million units” (Taintor 5). With technology, the world wants more music and less fake entertainment. They want to dance and sing to sounds rather than watch people

Majority of people believe that any artist makes so much money because they are in the music industry. That is not the case, most artist make very little money off their own songs. The artist gets very little percentage because the company and their label need to take the cut of their share. That is why most artist go on tour because the money they make is theirs. (Knopper 1-7). The record labels such as Sony and companies like Spotify, Youtube and ITunes gets a huge percentage of the money made off the song. In reality the label and company come first while the artist still stays struggling to make a profit. The companies have to pay for all the marketing that goes on for the song to get sold and on top of that they need their profit. Knopper also states, “A decade ago, this disparity in payments was a huge point of contention between artists and the labels they worked for” (5). The last decade artist cared about making money from their songs, now it is all about the over the top tours which rack in billions of