The Importance Of Music In The Music Distribution Industry

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Music is shown and presented in many ways in this world. You can hear it anywhere from church, to baseball games, to the grocery store, and everywhere in between. It is played though speakers, earphones, and instruments in public places in everyday life. Walking around Millersville I have heard lots of music not only because I’m a music major but music is a great medium of expression and entertainment in everyone’s life. Music is easy to access by anyone with a computer or a phone so you’re bound to hear music just strolling around the outside world. Walking in the Winter Center is the number one place I heard music overall In Biemesderfer. Many practices happen in this hall with different ensembles and different types of music. The song I …show more content…
Websites like Spotify, iTunes, and YouTube are big names in the music distribution industry. CD Baby, Tunecore, DistroKid, and Loudr are websites that can get your music on Spotify other streaming sites. (http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2014/05/29/digital-distribution-company-review/) Indie artists have a great time with these services because they are welcomed by these companies. (http://indiemusicpreneur.com/digital-distribution-service-price-comparison/) They make a decent living off the money they make on websites like DistroKid. Each website has different features that can help your popularity as an artist grow. Getting your music out into the world is a lot different back in the day because without the internet handing out physical copies was a lot harder to carry out to mass audiences. The ease of finding new music is so quick today that it uses patterns in music to quickly find what you would like. I personally only found this way effective one time in my life when I found out who The Staves were. I listen to so many different types of music that finding a specific sound is a hit or miss. Finding new music through friends and family is my preferred way of finding new music. My friends have a better time with this pattern finding new music every week because they are straighter forward with their …show more content…
Some artists have taken big hits from this change due to not adapting to music distribution or just not bothering with the new times. Prince is a pioneer in music and did not pass up this opportunity. In the mid-2000s he released new songs on his own before the invention of music sharing web sites like Soundcloud. (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/arts/music/prince-music-technology-distribution.html?_r=0)
The Internet has also caused problems in the way of giving out music. Online piracy took the music industry by storm with sources like Napster in 1999. (http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/spring01/burkhalter/napster%20history.html) File sharing was the way people could share music without the stakeholders getting money. New rules had to be made to regulate music distribution. Musicians like Lars Ulrich from Metallica protested against websites like Napster to eventually take down Napster in

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