Week 8 The FUTURE!

This is the last week. Nice. I was gonna get diabetes from all this Sugar(get it?).

We’ll totally answer these questions today:

1. What will music selling/listening platforms look like in the next ten years?
2. Will it be easier or more difficult to download new music in the future?
3. What sort of music styles will be popular in the next ten years?

 

Music would probably all be downloaded online in the future because it’s way more convenient. CD’s and record players will be gone. Right now, you can just go on your phone and download a song off Itunes. Imagine what that would be like, evolved. All the online music places would get a bunch of money.

I would say that it would be easier to download music in the future. It’s already easy enough, but technology companies are always trying to find ways to make things more convenient and stylize their tech.

And I actually really can’t predict what music styles would be popular in the future. It would probably reflect the personalities and the likes of the people. It could still be pop songs, or it could be a whole new genre of music people made up. Maybe the songs could be unmusical and not catchy in any way but is viral anyway because of something else. I can’t predict it, but these are some ideas. Maybe covers will thrive. Covers of old songs presented in a new way.

 

Week 7 The Business

It’s nearly the end of the unit, and now, we’re looking at the business parts of the song, with questions like:

1. Has my song been financially successful for my artist?
2. Where is my song available for listening and downloading?
3. Is there a problem with how available music is today? Is it being illegally downloaded?

 

Since I’m going to be answering the questions in a backwards order today, I’ll start with C. Music is being downloaded for free on a bunch of websites and I personally do know one. And that is a problem, because the artists who make the music don’t get any money they deserve out of it. You can just search the song up on Google and download it easily. It’s so available!

You can normally listen or buy songs like ‘Sugar’ off Itunes and Google Play Music and Spotify. But of course, there are still the illegal sites where you can download everything.

And now, the last/first question(see what I did?). Yes, the song has been incredibly successful! It hit number 1 on a bunch of charts, as we covered in a week before. I’ve actually tried to search it up but I couldn’t actually find how much money they made off the song. I could find that ‘as of August 2015, it has sold 3.3 million copies in the United States.’ That’s a lot. That was nearly a year ago. It’s $2.39 on Itunes and Google Play Music. Imagine that times 3.3 million. A lot.

Week 6 The Structure

It’s week 6, and we’re coming into the serious parts of this unit, and today, we’re looking at the structure of the pop song I chose.

Here’s a simple list of the parts:

Well, it does have a lot of information. Also, here’s some timbre used in the song: A bunch of guitars, including an electric guitar, bass guitar and synth bass, drums, keyboard and some some synthesizers.

Here’s a graph: (Not perfect)