The grief stricken music industry~

Wanted to rest for a while before blogging again, or to upload my next music review up, but this hooha is so massive that I have to blog about it. It concerns the Taiwanese music industry, or perhaps, the entire music industry in the world.

In an era where new singers are springing up and filling the music industry at the speed of crazy, one might wonder how do these amateurish singers even survive when people are cutting down on their spending?
The answer is: Their music companies don’t care, and the reason for them not to care is because: The music industry is now a joke.
Which singer can really sing and reign the entire music industry like how Beatles, ABBA and even, gosh, Michael Jackson did?
Which singer can sell up to 20 million copies of their album? Singers are only trying to pass the ten thousand mark now.
Previously, there were supporters and haters, either you like it or hate it. Now, there’s only supporters and onlookers, either you like it or is nonchalant about it.
In this looming world where downloading is the access to music, who still knows what a CD looks like?
Look at the Mandarin music industry for example; more and more youngsters are being ‘scouted’ through talent-scouting shows and singing competitions.
Groomed and bloomed, those kids gained popularity and think that they have found their haven.
Look at Aska Yang, Jam Hsiao and Yoga Lin, the three once most discussed individuals, where are they now?
Too many singers, too few consumers, that’s the ugly fact that we are living with now. Everyone is climbing to stardom due to over-excessive amounts of platforms.
Everyone is trying to outdo everyone, at the expense of the music industry.

Bribing of music charts is then what record companies resort to.

In 2007, Jay Chou and Jolin Tsai created a hooha when Jay said that he would not, and need not, do dirty tricks to manipulate the music charts unlike Chen Ze San, Jolin’s manager.
In 2009, Wang Lee Hom and Show Luo brought the bribery case up again. This time, Lee Hom’s company, SonyBMG, said, “The music industry knows that a particular renown management company would always try to bribe music charts whenever their singers release new albums.” Of course, SonyBMG was referring to Show who released his album on the same day as Lee Hom.
Woo. Did I mention that Jolin and Show come from the same management company called Mars Entertainment? They even hail from the same music company EMI Capitol, which has sadly ceased to existence lately after EMI supposedly gave up on the Mandarin music industry.
What a pleasant irony.

Haiz, okay, enough of ranting. Go review Show Luo's album soon.
And yay, starting work tmr.