What's Happening to the Music Industry?

 What has this music industry come to today? I mean it is so hard for up-and-coming artists to get a deal today, especially if they don’t have a budget or a lot of YouTube views. The industry was never like this back in the day; it now seems that you have to pay your way into the business. If that’s the case every artist should go the independent route, that way they will have total control over their career. But what ever happened to being discovered? Whether you have a lot of views and comments on your YouTube video, or even have a video; if you have talent then you should be given some type of chance; especially being how lazy the industry and its labels and A&R’s have became by just looking for the next big thing on the internet.

  I’ve said this before and I will say it again, if a record label like Def Jam Recording discovered an artist or group today, and put it out there that they’ve signed this artist or group, people are going to search the artist’s or group’s name to see what this artist or group is all about and how good their music is. Sometimes it’s all about the backing in this business, then comes the show and improve part of it. But no, that’s how it goes today, promoters want you to pay to be in their showcases, A&R’s want you to pay them to take you in front of music execs, just for that music exec to tell you that your fan base is not big enough or your YouTube videos don’t have enough views and comments; basically things that you already knew, but now you’ve paid someone a couple hundred dollars to tell you the same thing. Funny huh? Well not to the individual(s) who paid someone to tell them things that they already knew.

 As I said before, the music business was never the way it is today. The legends were not discovered by YouTube views or did they have to pay to be heard or perform in front of people in the industry. They went where these execs hung out and performed in front of them or even went directly to the label’s office and did what they had to do to be heard. That’s why soon the independent labels will make the major record labels look extinct, because since the majors want these artists or groups to have a budget before they even talk to them, these artists or groups will take their budget and do their own thing, as they should anyway.