Changes In Pop Culture

Millions of dollars are made by artists today in the music industry, mostly by the younger generation that have a new style of singing and expressing themselves through their music. A lot of money is made by artists today, but what was different about music in the 1970s, and how does the popularity in the pop genre of music differ from different decades in pop culture. Pop music is one of the biggest selling genres in music overall, but in the 70s, there was another genre of music that was popular because of the difference in personalities and ages of singers and their fans. The one thing that has been speculated about artists who make a large amount of money is if they produce more songs or just stop and leave their audience waiting for them

In the 1970s money was received by artists in a royalty sheet, which was used by artists to keep track of their profit from CDs or records. Royalty sheets were where the amount of money an artist earned was placed, but this idea showed to be less profitable than today because of the split in between the amount of money each person that contributed into the song or album gets, this affects the profit because the recording label and producers receive a bigger cut in some cases. In the present, money is handled by computers and negotiation of contracts because there are different ways to buy music, such as online streaming and buying physical CDs or records. Today artists still use royalty sheets it is just that the artists are now receiving a larger profit due to the different internet sites you can stream music and different negotiation contracts that let you receive the same amount of money each time the identical item is bought. Technology has changed the way music is heard or seen because of the subscription services, online streaming services and video websites that you can see videos on. Technology has tampered with the way music is viewed because in the 1970s, people weren 't able to have their favorite artist’s music in the palm of their hand, they had to buy records or CDs, but now they have different ways to listen and view music, which leads artists to make more money; videos and streaming websites are the new ways artists make money because if a song costs 99¢ on iTunes then some of that money goes to the artist, which occurs each time the song is downloaded (Knopper, “The New Economics of the Music Industry,” rollingstone.com). The change in the way humans listen to music and buy music online and in-stores have changed the way artists get paid because