I have quite a collection of country music by now, I just love it, not everything of course. I've just noticed a song tittled "she thinks my tractor is sexy." I have no idea what it is about, I didn't have a chance to listen to it yet and I am not sure I would ever will. It's probably something either very funny or very stupid. Anyways, that got me thinking about some changes that might occur or are already happening in music industry.
It used to be, that just one or two hit songs were enough to sell the album. Since everything was sold in a bundle, artists could get away with something really bad, maybe something as weird as song about someone sexually attracted to a tractor.
Not, with iTunes and other sited where you can get albums or singles, artists seem to invest more effort and their talent into every song on their album. Song would never get sold if it's bad, so even producing it would be costly and revenue would probably never justify the efforts and resources spent on producing it (I guess costs are now calculated or might be calculated for each song separately, not just total for a production of an album). Which is great for us, for users, who may be more confident in buying an album and expecting lots of good stuff on it. Each song now is a a single product (with all the costs and revenue involved) and a competitor for an album. And as we know competition should increase the quality.
Economics of productions has definitely changed! I love that!
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