Music Industry Crisis

Music industry crisis

During the 20th Century all music would be listened to on vinyls, cassettes and CD's. Before iTunes and other online services to buy music, you would have to buy one of these devices and the equipment to play them on e.g. a record player would play vinyls. 

When the MP3 player was invented (The iPod having the biggest name) music would then be brought online from sites such as iTunes. Being able to download music to your device using the internet means no one feels the need to go to shops such as HMV to buy CD's. This means these kinds of shops are forced to close down. 

A huge problem for the music industry is streaming music illegally. It has taken over how people download their music. Personally its strange to think that buying music was a normal thing to do because my generation of music all comes from streaming it. I couldn't imagine myself paying money for music. I don't think anything of it when i stream music it just seems like a normal day to day thing however, i do understand that artists aren't getting the amount of money they deserve due to streaming services. 

The music industry is constantly trying to take down and sue these specific streaming websites however more and more of them are created all the time so it makes it incredibly difficult for the music industry.