Here in the US, Best Buy put music stores out of business.
Now Best Buy offers a fraction of the musical content they once did.
Walmart is a joke if you're looking for a cd.
If I want a cd, I have to ORDER IT ONLINE!
Why bother when I can just go to Google Play and get it for a fraction of the cost and listen on my tablets, phones and pcs?
Been said already, but the music industry in the US flat out sucks. We get cookie cutter band after cookie cutter band after cookie cutter band. There is no more main stream way of promoting bands like MTV and MTV2 which show nothing but reruns of reality TV programs instead of music videos.
So we turn to Youtube because there is NO OPTION to see music videos on standard cable anymore.
This evens out the playing field because the little guys can promote just as easily as the big guys on Youtube, plus people can green/ blue screen their vids and the tools are there so some amateurs can do almost as good a job as a big company filming their video.
Artists don't need the big companies to promote them anymore, they're now promoting themselves via the internet, and the big companies are bitching because they refused to adapt and now they're dying.
Now Best Buy offers a fraction of the musical content they once did.
Walmart is a joke if you're looking for a cd.
If I want a cd, I have to ORDER IT ONLINE!
Why bother when I can just go to Google Play and get it for a fraction of the cost and listen on my tablets, phones and pcs?
Been said already, but the music industry in the US flat out sucks. We get cookie cutter band after cookie cutter band after cookie cutter band. There is no more main stream way of promoting bands like MTV and MTV2 which show nothing but reruns of reality TV programs instead of music videos.
So we turn to Youtube because there is NO OPTION to see music videos on standard cable anymore.
This evens out the playing field because the little guys can promote just as easily as the big guys on Youtube, plus people can green/ blue screen their vids and the tools are there so some amateurs can do almost as good a job as a big company filming their video.
Artists don't need the big companies to promote them anymore, they're now promoting themselves via the internet, and the big companies are bitching because they refused to adapt and now they're dying.