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Originally Posted by Soulflower
It appears in today's industry, the industry only wants to market 5 pop stars and limit the competition for whatever reason.
You are right. Record companies are a business first. However, in previous decades there was more of a variety when it came to the pop acts. There was a diverse representation of different musical genres in the mainstream.There also was artistic merit behind it as well although image of course has always been a factor for pop music.
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It's interesting but I covered why this is happening and you totally glossed over it without a word.
There are only 4 major labels, all owned by multinational conglomerates that have blanket coverage over the media because they own record companies, film studios, TV stations, radio stations, print media, websites.... the lot.
This wasn't the case 20/30 years ago where there were many more record companies who's core interest was putting out music rather than being a small arm of a bigger company. Also because of that it was also easier for smaller labels able to make a bigger impact, that's why you had more variety back then.
The only reason you had more variety was because there were more labels, not that they did much different back then, they were all looking for the most marketable artists.