How Youtube Changed The Music Industry

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How has YouTube changed the music industry

It used to be the goal of an artist to get his or her music video played on MTV. However nowadays the goal of an artist is to have his or her music video go viral on YouTube. Since YouTube started, it has changed everything in the internet. Most people has replaced watching TV, to watch YouTube, this is because all the advantages it has comparing it with normal TV. Like the disliked TV schedule, the money you spend (because if you want, you can pay only internet and watch all your favorite TV programs on YouTube), on YouTube you are able to watch your programs without any advertisements at all, etc.
YouTube has been used by many unknown artists to get their music videos go viral, some examples of …show more content…

Also because of the monetization option that YouTube allows you to put in your videos, artists receive a lot of money, 1 to 10 dollars per 1000 views. Furthermore, music videos posted on YouTube are free in comparison to the music videos on iTunes, this is a huge advantage that YouTube has over the “music based” platforms, like: iTunes, Beatport, etc. YouTube has entered our argot as a verb. Billions of us ‘facebook’, ‘google’, and ‘youtube’ daily. You can find everything on YouTube, you want to play the guitar or fix your old printer that is piling up dust on your attic? ‘Youtube’ it, you will surely find it.
4 billion hours are watched each month on YouTube, and 72 hours of video are uploaded every minute. An interesting fact, is that YouTube was intended to be a video version of the dating site named ‘Hot or Not’. “YouTube is beginning to behave like a market leader[…].Brands and talent are using YouTube to create direct-to-consumer relationship”, said Elisabeth Murdoch in her 2012 MacTaggart …show more content…

1.- Justin Bieber. Justin Bieber became famous, in large part, to YouTube videos of him performing as a pre-teenager. The videos of his homemade performances, convinced execs at Island Def Jam Recordings to sign Justin Bieber to a huge deal before he was even able to drive.
His estimated earning of last year are about $55 million.
2.- Esmee Denters. Justin Timberlake signed Esmee Denters to a record deal. Denters started her carrer by uploading low-tech karaoke videos to YouTube.
3.- Arnel Pineda. Arnel Pineda started posting videos of his band (‘The Zoo’ at that time), performing covers on YouTube in 2007. Pineda was invited to an audition to become the lead singer of Journey. He got the job, and he is now the lead singer of one of the biggest rock bands of all history.

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In this video a guy that is named ‘baldmetalnerd’ on YouTube, talks about how the internet has transformed the music industry for better and

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