The Death of Chart Music?

If there is a kind of music made for the sole purposes of making money and gaining fame – and another kind, made by true artists, touching peoples souls – then I have a theory of how to get rid of the first.

Today the music industry complains about loosing a lot of money on illegal copying and file sharing. Money that should go to promotion, distribution and the artists. So I ask myself, where is the money flow largest in the music industry? I guess it’s around chart music – popular and relatively short lived songs and artists. To generalize; music made for the sole purpose of making money and gaining fame.

If sharing and copying music was totally legalized, I think that this kind of music would be downloaded and copied the most, since it’s constantly being replaced by newer artists and hits up to date with trends and styles. Nobody would spend money on mp3’s or CD’s when the music will be out of date the next week. Legal copying and downloading would rule.

And the result? There will be no money in making commercial music. Not for the artists and not for the record companies, since nobody would pay for it.

Will this not happen to all of the music industry? I don’t think so. Who would like to pay for music if it was legal to copy and download for free? The answer, I think, will be people listing to music that means something to them, music touching souls, honest music by true artists. Music with a deeper purpose than of being a commercial product making people rich and famous. If you really like an artist you gladly give some money in return for the music. Maybe not all people, but a lot, I think, and hope.

Would not this make the world a better place?