To target their audiences the music industry fragments the different types of music into different categories such as Heavy Metal, Pop, Classical, Rock and more. This makes it easier to know what music you like so that when you go into a shop to buy a C.D or tape you can find the one you want easily. It is much easier for the music industry to target their audiences when they are set up in categories like this.
Image is very important to any music band. The life of a star is often considered very glamorous. People try to imitate the way they look and admire them.
The music and magazine industry rely on each other a lot to promote their products. The Music industry needs magazines to advertise their products and get more publicity. The front cover of a magazine is a good way to do this because it is the first thing people see when they buy the magazine. Advertising a band like this can determine if their music will be a hit or miss in the charts.
The magazine industry needs music to sell their magazines. The more popular the artist on the cover the more the magazine sells. The two industries are very much reliant on each other; without one the other would fall.
Music videos are a good way to promote bands. If a band has a new and interesting video it will sell twice the records. It also has to target its audience correctly. For example, if it were a grunge band releasing a video you would expect to see skaters in the background or a gig being trashed. These are the stereotyped images we tend to relate to this type of music.
C.D covers are another really good way to sell music. The front cover can sometimes make you choose that particular C.D over another you may have intended to buy. Some C.D covers don’t have anything to do with the band or music, this is to make it more mysterious, interesting and talked about. Some artist’s have become well known because of the C.D cover.
The manufacturing of bands isn’t a new thing. The public have realised, by watching programmes such as Pop Idol, Fame Academy and Pop Stars, how easy it is for the average person to be turned into a ‘superstar’. These programmes took away the illusion that bands were raw talents.
I feel that manufactured bands aren’t as good as people who have worked hard to get were they are. Now we all think that anyone can be a pop star and all we have to do now is apply for pop idol!