Flaws of the music industry

Why is it that when we turn on the radio or put on MTV, we hear the same type of music from the same group of artist? Today the music industries are very limited and are solely focused on making money. As a result, all society hears is the same music over and over again. Last week in our class discussion we talked about different flaws that are going on in the music industries today. For example, artist going bankrupt because of the label they are with, a limited amount of music we hear, and a limited amount of top artist.
Music labels only hire artist now that they know will make them money and don’t see the point of having a bunch of artist when they can make more money from just one artist. Even though the companies and labels are making all this money the artist who actually earn the money are going bankrupt. The reason being the artist has to pay for their own videos, concerts and airtime and receive about 1% of their album sales. This just shows how corrupt the music industry is. If the artist puts so much time and energy into their work why don’t they get to reap the benefits? It isn’t fair to the artist that the labels just sit back and do nothing and receive all the profit. I believe something needs to be done to change this. Artist need to start making their own independent labels to show these major labels, they need the artist, not that the artist needs them. In class we watched a video and it showed that some independent labels earned as much as the major labels did without ripping off their artist.
In addition, I think this issue is affecting us as a consumer. Today people don’t really go out and buy CDs anymore they just go on the internet and download music, but who can really blame the consumer. People don’t want to hear a whole album of the same type of song; they want to hear something different. So instead of getting the whole album they download the one song they like. I believe the artist and consumer can work together to get a change in the music industry. For example, the artist can make music the consumer wants to hear while on an independent label and the consumer can continue to support the artist even though it s no longer on this major record label. This is easier said than done. An artist can leave a label, but more than likely the label will go right out the next day and find a replacement. So this is another place the consumer comes in. The consumer can boycott these labels and maybe there will finally be a change in the music industries.