Nowadays, music has taken a big place in our daily lives. It has even imposed itself in the world of cinema as an essential component and is no longer considered as a simple dressing up. It has become a highly prized product. Furthermore, the rapid evolution of technology has helped to revive the music industry and has thus transformed it into a sector that weighs heavily in the global economy. A look back at the expansion of the music industry in recent years.
From records to streaming
Currently, streaming is considered the best way to listen to music. It is, in fact, a process that is completely different from downloading, in that its purpose is to listen to a piece of music on a virtual medium without having to record it on a computer and clutter up the hard disk with gigabytes of files.
It was in 2004 that the digital revolution began in the world of music. In particular, when overall sales of downloads and subscriptions surpassed sales of CDs for the first time.
Although many industry professionals were against the switch from physical (CD) to digital (streaming) formats, it was consumers who decided on this issue by increasingly turning to digital practices. Indeed, this is the aspect that best illustrates the digitisation of music.
The contribution of streaming to the music industry
With the advent of streaming, recording a disc is now within everyone’s reach.
Until fifteen years ago, it was a privilege reserved for a minority of professionals and record companies only opened their doors to a handful of artists.
Today, any talented singer can record his songs, press CDs and dream of becoming a superstar without having to endure all the constraints imposed by the record companies. This is particularly the case for Marlène Duval, who has always been passionate about singing and has turned to self-production to make her dream come true.
Moreover, these practices have been encouraged since the eighties, especially with alternative rock which was trying to prove that bands could indeed exist without having to enter the traditional system. As a result, a self-production market was born and developed at high speed.
This phenomenon became even more pronounced with the advent of electronic music in Europe towards the end of the eighties. At the time, no record company was interested in this movement. Thanks to its many fans and the fact that it was possible to produce it at home with a “home studio”, techno music developed without the help of the majors.
Nowadays, artists can therefore produce themselves thanks to technological progress.
