Is Pop Dead?

Jessings22

yeah pop is dying cuz people keep downloading stuff and i guess music companies are losing money cuz then they're not making money when stuff is downloaded.

heartbeatradio

Well thats not strictly true, all music is facing the changing mode of making money, agreed the profits from record and CD sales is being affected and therefor the super normal profits may be affected. However, record companies, singers and groups will have to up their game plan to add value to thier products. This means more concerts, television, radio performances adding non downloadable benefits to buying the CD would help, maybe changing from simple record CD's to full performance videos would increasing the download size and time would help solve the problem of illegal downloads. The fact of the matter is, the internet has given extrodinary power to the consumer who wants better value for their hard earned cash. Taking into account that to download a record on the net from Amazon cost around 99 pence per track. It is roughly the same acumulative price to buy the original CD. If the record companies took off the CD production and distribution cost they could sell the tracks themselves over the net for around 40 pence each. Then by cutting out the middle men they would actually see thier profits rise because the track price would be well within acceptable price range of consumers.

Butterfly08

I don't think Pop is dead at all, if it was so, then so many pop acts would not be making a comback. There are some amazing pop acts out there...look at girls aloud, sugababes, Madonna and Robyn! POP is here too stay!!!!