To whom it may concern, this week I am going to be talking about the music industry and the effect technology has had on it. In class this week we were lucky enough to have a local artist come speak to us about his career and how the internet has enabled him to be able to flourish easily from his home in Eugene Oregon. I think that due to the Internet the music industry has been able to blossom in ways that it could have never came close to before the Internet. Now a days because of the Internet artist can put up samples, hit songs, or even full length CDs or mix tapes on the Internet for the public to download free of charge. Artist also have many fan pages, facebooks, MySpace’s, and blogs that enable them to have a more personal connection with their fans. Because of the internet it has also enabled music listeners to find other artist that they otherwise would not know of. Another aspect of technology that has changed the way of the music is iTunes.
iTunes has enabled music lovers to easily access and sample music from their favorite artist as well recommending other artist that are similar to those that the listener likes. This acts as advertisement for these artist and they do not even have to pay for it.