When you scroll through the music library on your phone, do you ever think about how much money those artists make? How many other people do you think have that same artist's music on their phone? ... The music industry obtains numbers far worse. In the music industry, there are large disputes over who obtains money and who benefits from the selling of music.  ... In the music industry, the bands are the employees and the record companies are the CEOs.  ...

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In its broadest sense, popular music is an umbrella term referring to a vast range of commercially mass-marketed musical genres contrasting with classical or art music and intended to appeal to the masses (e.g., rock, rock and roll, hip-hop, grunge, heavy metal, rhythm and blues, punk, soul, techno, funk, rap, house). ... Studies of popular music encompass a range of approaches from musicological, whereby music is commonly analyzed as a text, to sociological, which tends to focus on the social uses of popular music and the dynamic and interactive relationship between popular music, culture, an...

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The important part was that the human ear could barely, if at all, discern the MP3 music from the CD music, and that the size was drastically diminished. ... Could trading files on the internet contribute to or hinder music sales? ... Its competition was two rappers, Mystikal and Nelly, and the punk rock band Green Day. ... We are not allowed to put out insecure music, but they are" (qtd. in Eliscu). ... But by stopping the album from being released for free, the music industry firmly put its foot down about free music. ...

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