The Music Industry Sunk Apparently

No longer needed ticket lines and local promoters under the once regionally compartmentalized mainstream music industry are now a thing of the past.

All you find today at concerts and festivals is the old ticket line passers distributing concert tickets and band cds up the line to the major labels.

We've all heard the story, give me your cd and I'll pass it up to Sony...well that's all over now.

Those networks of people are no longer needed in the music industry and they are probably they only people left at the concerts.

That's the old manual way of running the music industry from regionalized country to country and locale to locale to locale.

That's right they are all bankrupt, for many reasons...one being the cds never got passed up line.

Scammers holding bands back at ticket booths and merchandise tables are now a thing of the past, the whole old on the ground manual music distributing.

All that has been replaced by yes, internet advertising.

All they have now is one ad on an international webpage, that replaced all the old ticket lines and concert holders, the ones passing bands up and stuff.

Plus the entire music catalog practically is online for $8 a month on many different services.

The implications of this are obvious, play counts aren't real on Spotify, Youtube or any streaming service.

That's because labels like Sony own or pay to have their music on a Spotify like service, then when people listen to Spotify all the play counts do is pay the label back from their original investment which is zero.

Spotify has said it even hasn't made any money yet, and the subscription just pays money back to initial investors.

The example is this, having a high play count or zero play count is the same thing on the internet.

Like this, Sony pays to run music on Spotify....or they might own it. 

Then when their promotion teams like their old closed ticket lines play Spotify to support them those aren't real plays and the money it generates just go back to Sony out of their investment and makes no money.

So you have your music on the internet with no street team you get no plays, the other people like Sony that is the same thing for them because the money earned off the plays is just the money holding it on the page anyway.

So it is the same thing to have millions or zero plays on the internet, at the end of the day all it is is just a band listing on a webpage.

With all them ticket lines over, street teams over, internet plays meaningless and internet advertising replacing all street level music promotions it's pretty clear that music industry has sunk again.  

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