Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Daughtry and more recently Jordin Sparks have been the most successful. Each one touches a different genre and only Kelly Clarkson has reached international super stardom. Other contestants have put out a song or two and have disappeared from the limelight. But American Idol produces at least 12 potential money makers each year. They merely need to release a song to iTunes, make their money and move on if the artist doesn't have potential to continue on. It doesn't matter to the recording industry anymore. .
An example as previously mentioned is Kelly Clarkson vs. Clive Davis. After racking in over $100 million in revenue for the label for her album Breakaway, which gave her two Grammy awards in 2006, Clarkson had earned the right to call the shots for her next record as stated by Simon Cowell. The suits said the only hit on Breakaway was "Since U Been Gone," and disregarded songs she wrote for the record. However, three of the five singles released were written by Clarkson including the smash hit "Because of You" which she wrote when she was 16. Beaten down by promoting the record with a total of four tours and a lonely road, Clarkson began writing more with her backing band. Turning in the material, Davis publicly dismissed the record as not sellable because it had "no hits." This was in part due to because she refused to take the $10 million offered to her to replace or rework 5 songs and work with the hit writers she worked with on Breakaway. Clarkson's response? "It's my face, it's my time, there's my album and there's no other choice. The label has never been in love with anything I've ever written.".
Kelly stood her ground to release the dark personal collection of songs, knowing that this was one album out of a career and she needed it for her. This proves music is a venting practice and she refused to be a formula all the time to be No. 1. This album showed off her rock chops to a harder degree than the pop rock tunes on Breakaway and showed a sweeter melodic singer-songwriter style on songs such as "Maybe" and the heart-breaking prayer "Irvine.
The music industries are at a low. ... ("Music and the Internet" 321). ... Because the copyright laws can not be applied over the Internet, it causes a domino effect. First, the music industries loose out. ... To put this madness to an end for all Internet cheaters the law needs to start taking into the effect. ...
Before the Internet was invented, music was similar to shoes. ... In order for an artist to generate demand for their music they first had to land a record contract with the music industry because the music industry controlled the distribution of all music available to the public. ... On this account, the commercial music industry is watching the Internet very closely and trying to use their influential voice to target and destroy the exchange of digital music files commonly known as MP3 files. ... Combined with the Internet, MP3s have become the easiest and most popular way to distribute mu...
One pairing of technological advancements that has recently been causing controversy in the music industry is the collaboration of MP3 and the Internet. ... The latest wave of technology to effect music has caused record labels and artists to rethink the whole structure of the music industry. ... This technology, along with the Internet and CD burners, has dramatically decreased the amount of sales for the record industry. ... Napster, the first Internet site to allow users to share MP3 files with each other for free, started an immediate battle between the record industry, artists, and consu...
Shawn Fanning (the founder of Napster), found out how to make downloading music easy without having to spend endless hours searching the internet. ... RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States, and was formed in 1952 in Washington D.C. ... The founders of Napster saw that getting music off the internet was very difficult and very time consuming. ... A few findings of the study conducted by the European Commission Joint Research Centre, illegal music downloads had no effect on legal music downloads, but i...
Millions of people in their own homes are using the internet to illegally download everything from music to movies. ... While millions of people are perfectly happy with getting these thing for free, the recording industries are worried about how this newest rage will effect the music industry in the future. ... Napster, an MP3 program shut down because the music industries felt it violated copyright laws, was only the beginning. ... Is the music industry to blame for trend of file-swapping? ... People will be more likely to continue downloading music if they are being name called by a mas...
COMPACT DISCS SINGLES MARKET At the beginning of the 21st century there has been a major change in technology, concerning the music industry. ... Mid 90's the technology of CD-burners, and internet free downloading music became available to the public. ... The music industry CD single sales plummet over the last three years as illegal music file sharing exploded. The biggest effect was shown in 2001. ... This is shown by sales of CD singles falling by 39% in 2000 according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)....
The Technology savvy, computer literate, youth of the world have struck back at the monopoly that is the recording industry. ... Downloading unsanctioned copywrited music from the internet is infact Illegal. The federal copyright law states that a person who is caught illegally downloading music on the web could face penalties of up to $150,000 per song, but the Recording Industry Association of America or RIAA has already settled some cases for as little as $3000 (foxnews.com). Another problem Illegal downloading causes is the effect it has on our favorite musical artists. ... Downloading mu...
Music downloaders all hold different opinions on how what they do affects the music industry. ... Perhaps this proves that file sharing programs and websites do not hold a big effect on the number of CD sales according to Adams (27). The music industry and major record companies do not perceive it this way. ... The music industry has already taken many websites and their owners to court to try and get their sites shut down, and have started to succeed. ... A small solution has been talked about, and the music industry could become worried with the results. ...
Another statement made in defense of Manson, KDFDM, and the recording industry was by Hillary Rosen, President/CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). ... It's too easy to make music a scapegoat" (The Music/Violence Connection 4). ... Both the stores and the radio have changed because of the effect music has on people. ... Because of this effect, a field of medicine, called music therapy, is now available. ... Through the help of music and a mus...
