Influence of Social Media on the Music Industry
Even a decade before no one would have foreseen the magnitude of the impact that social media has brought on the way music is delivered to enthusiasts. The change was visible to some extent even during the days of personal computers and laptops, and further compounded when fast internet connectivity became a reality. The Internet revolution made dissemination of information and news on music an up to minute affair. People nowadays don’t depend on the print media and that is because blogs/social media have taken over their function. That everything is delivered to readers fast and in no time sounds good, but along came piracy on a massive scale, and that social media fuelled it to unforeseen levels is not deniable. With millions of users using social media to exchange and download media on peer to peer networks, and social media users exploding and growing at mind blogging speed, the future of music industry itself has come under severe strain. The overall impact is there f...