http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music/newsid_10000000/newsid_10003400/10003411.stm
Nothing like a bit of consumerism to get the blood pumping. Of course in reality this has a lot to do with Gaming Theory - which I was reminded about last night by QI. How does the charts work in gaming theory, well compare the music industry to the tobacco industry, granted one product allegidly gives you lung cancer, the other just persues you for damages in intellectual property for filesharing. Both of which are guarenteed to give you a bad day. But to answer my own question, each music promoter has to push equally hard spending hard cash to make sure their artist is in the top 40, be that through childrens TV, the now defunt TOTP, magazines etc, or x-factor. They can’t stop because if they do, the other person takes home the bacon. If they all stopped, everyone would have equal chance of business. Sort of.
Then some group of internet people get fed up with listening to repackaged barf and decide to protest. The promoter doesn’t really loose out here because Sony BMG still gets the same (if not increased) revenue, the artist will still get the same cash and less of this pretty much undeserved self hyped fame. In the meantime Rage Against the Machine will get a bit more promotion hopefully helping yet another generation pick up the political torch.
And mostly, it’ll continue to annoy Simon Cowell.
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