Nowadays, teenagers live constantly surrounded by technology even if the younger generation has not seen it, as technology has had an impact on the world as a whole. The widespread use of digital technology in the music industry has allowed consumers to reproduce digital versions of copyrighted songs at a low cost with the help of numerous programs and websites.
The growth of downloads and music exchange is responsible for the decline in music sales since the end of the 1990s. Information and communication technologies, especially the Internet, have changed the logic of consumption and the music production process.
One of the biggest challenges facing the music industry has been dealing with the invention of the MP3 file. This file went into effect between 1996 and 1999 and since then, piracy has become more important. An MP3 file lets people save files to computers and share music with anyone in the world.
Besides, YouTube, the third most visited website in the world behind Google and Facebook, has 100 hours of video per minute. One of the key facts to keep in mind is that YouTube pays artists and music labels. We also have other channels like Vevo.
On April 28, 2003, Apple released the iTunes Store. The iTunes store, with over 500 million users in 119 countries, contains more than 25 billion songs. Nowadays, artists take most of their money by going around and selling music on iTunes.
Although digital technology has had bad effects on the music industry, new devices have emerged and have helped the music industry. These days, the industry is revitalizing, thanks to the competition created by Spotify or even SoundCloud that offers music and copyright protection for free or at a very low price.
Entertainment has been a popular instrument for over a decade with famous musicians in the lead with names like Curtis James Jackson of the 50 Cent category born in Christopher George Latore Wallace born in The Notorious BI G and Darryl Mc Daniels born in DMC. Tupac Shakur, LL Kool J. James James Todd Smith was born a large group of prominent foreign musicians who truly demonstrated to the entire world what music required.
They inspire young artists coming to the beginning of music and the need to see music not only as a profession but as something to relieve the body of stress and revive the soul. The entertainment industry has captured the minds of the masses by promoting arts and culture and then lifestyle.
Celine Dion
Chief among them is Celine Dion, a Canadian singer born on March 30, 1968 to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec. She won international recognition for the first time in the 1980s by winning the Yamaha International Song Festival in 1982 and the European Song Contest in 1988, when she represented Switzerland. She released several English albums with additional French albums.
Michael Jackson
Also, we have the American singer Michelle Joseph Jackson, a songwriter, dancer, who was one of the most popular artists in the world and was the best-selling music artist during the year of his death. He was born on August 29, 1958.
Nowadays with the flow of many artists and with the modernization, entertainment has taken on a new dimension with more cinema, open shows and entertainment in shopping malls and amusement parks where prestigious musicians enjoy a large audience for delicious pleasure. Competition has become more these days as all artists try to live up to expectation in order to attract a large audience compared to the old days where competition is at its lowest levels as artists inspire and instill more ethics in the minds of the audience
In conclusion, digital technology has greatly affected the music industry and given the huge contribution in this industry, we can conclude among its disadvantages that digital technology has made music accessible to people at the grassroots level with little or no cost, thus making them obtain music Any day, any time.