Overview

The music business is constantly expanding and attracting more people to want to get involved in the music business. Reasons for this are the range of talent and genre's in music to choose from, for example drum and bass and a contrast to this is Oprah these are to complete different types of music, and for different personalities. Music revenues grew in the past year in Europe and Latin America by 0.8% in trading. However music sales on a global scale where shocked that in Japan there was a 16.7% fall in which is meant to be the worlds second biggest market. Outside of Japan music revenues fell by 0.1% however if you then included Japan in to this it would have fell a massive 3.9% which is a massive 15$ billion dollars. Things that could of affected this big decrease in Japan is things such as pirate copies which is people selling music or letting people download it for free which will mean the artist of the song will not receive any money meaning that they might not be able to fund to make there music better in the future because they are not receiving all the money they are meant to receive.

The billboard website is a website where you can download your own music and it gives you information about the latest charts ratings and how good the song is doing at the present time.










Pop Genre

A common age for pop-fans are 11-18 Females and males because there is something in the pop industry for either gender. However A lot of adults are fans of pop music as well so realistically the age for pop is any age.  Although teenagers are the target audience.

 

This is an image of young one direction fans waiting for one direction fans to arrive to a concert. This shows that there status of them being pop-stars has brought them fame and thousands of fans that want to come and see them whenever they can. Also one direction have a so called 'Cool' dress sense and people want o dress like them because it is a cool and stylish look, which they think will help them get girls. One Direction fans age range between 8-18 this is because they are all young teenagers and find one direction an attractive group. Also with one direction at this present moment in time being the worlds most famous band this means that they have so much pressure on them to perform and that there fan base is only getting bigger not just in the united kingdom but also worldwide.