From Plan B to Britney Spears, nowadays music isn’t just ‘Rock’ or ‘Rap’. Every genre has a sub-genre and sub-sub-genre, so where is one to start on the ladder of prosidy?
Sadly for some, and very gladly for others, the days of top of the pops are over. The times when the charts defined good music are actually passing and a whole new scope of artists are breaking through in ways that don’t conform with the old standards. I’m not saying its the dawn of a new millennium for the music world, its more like the end of the previous one.
But where does that leave us? What IS this ‘new’ music that’s finally coming out into the open, and what makes it so different from what’s around already?
Previously artists were defined by the amount of financial backing they had from their’ respective record labels. If you got signed to a big enough label, and they paid for enough promotion, you were pretty much guaranteed to be in the charts, and there for, sell lots and lots of records.
Now however, the industry has matured with the help of the internet into a new shape where the consumer has access to virtually limitless artists whether or not they have any sort of record deal. Shops aren’t the only place to go for music anymore, and as new people are discovered who DON’T have a big wallet behind them, more new and different music is coming through to the general public, and increasingly artist websites are being used to new levels.
So what is the point of this blog?
To find out who they are.
