Thursday, April 14, 2011

The poor rich and famous

Everyone is worried that with social media outlets like youtube, facebook, and all the other addicting and time consuming websites out there along with the music "sharing websites that the music is in trouble. Well yeah......maybe...... actually not necessarily lol well since to one is a psychic because they arent real no one can know for sure. A few years ago artists were ranking in thier money from album sales. If you liked a song u had to go aout and buy the whole album, even if all the other songs totally sucked! Thats when Napster was created, the 1st music sharing website. Shawn Fanning created it so that people could selectively download the songs of thier choice and could pick through and sample other peoples music collections. This totally pissed off the music business....and it should have lol its basiclly stealing. But who am i to judge?

Although music album sales are going down and iTunes song downloads are down (because people dont want to have to pay) musicians and record labels can use these other forms of mediums to sell out concerts and merchandise. I dont think that pop artists now-a-days are going to die if they earn alittle less (even though id probaably like it if most of them did!) But if it matters that much they can turn to advertisers and put products in thier videos and photo shoots. Does this make Drake a sell out? Personlly i thought the comercial was gay. My point is there is plenty of money out there to be made (if ur a celebrity!) its just shifting and they might have to work a tiny bit more to get it. I know, the poor rich and famous right?

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