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Music Consumption
Since the 1990's, music consumption was available, however not in the way we would see it today. With the proliferation in hardware and software it has made it so much easier for us to access music anytime and even anywhere. TV channels like MTV were really the only way in which music videos could be viewed in the 1990's. MTV was the real start in the rise of the music video, making it a necessity for musicians to have a music video. -
Limewire
Limewire is an illegal file sharing software. Limewire allowed users to download music albums or single tracks. This was bad for the other popular music app known as iTunes, as they lost some of their buyers due to them going elsewhere to buy their music so they could get them for free. -
iTunes
iTunes opened up their online store on April 28, 2003, letting their target audience view the iTunes store to buy music and music albums. This was instantly a hit when they went worldwide. The owner of the company Steve Jobs, become successful making other apple products such as iPods where you could download music onto that for a small price. -
Music
The Pirate Bay (commonly abbreviated TPB) is a website that provides torrent files and magnet links to facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent protocol. It was founded in Sweden in 2003. However, other music companies can simply not shut Piratebay down, as another one will be created within a day. -
When music channels went down hill
Youtube was set up in order for their target audience to comment, share, watch and listen too music videos. They successfuly come 3rd place in the world for the most used site known to internet history at reaching 3,637,788 users each day. The most viewed music video from the website is Gangnam style, it was the first and only video to surpass 1 billion vews. From usng youtube, you can copy the URL into a piracy copying software where you can illegally download your music for free. -
When 4Music started to air shows
The 4Music channel began transmission on Friday 15 August 2008. Once again, another music channel has to find a way in order to keep their viewers still watching. This is when they started viewing other programmes rather than just music. 4music and Viva had come together -
Music Conumption
95% of music downloads in 2008 were illegal. This has a big effect on the music companies known as Universal Music. There profit would have been oer halfed due to people illegally downloding their music online. -
The battle between Vevo and MTV
With high competition MTV had to decide what to do to keep their viewers active and still watch the show, that's when they decided to show teenage/adult shows like Teen Mom and a series linking Jersey Shore which is now aired in different countries. This made the channel not just exclusive to music videos. This eventually would prove to be the rise (once again) in music channels. -
Vevo
Vevo, is a joint venture music video website owned and operated by Abu Dhabi Media, Google, Sony Music Entertainment, and Universal Music Group. It has provided the big three oligopolies somewhere for their artists to put their music videos in one place. Making it easier for the audience to view music videos, Vevo is one of the reaons why MTV show more television shows now more than music videos. -
Geordie shore goes world wide
MTV got wise to their fall and created more reality shows like Geordie Shore and The valleys, however they didn't realise how big it would become drawing in 1 million viwers in 2013. They have now got their previous users back, more than what they had to begin with. -
The fall of 4 music
Their television hours were cut back and it is once again the fall of small music channels because of the lack of audience views due to their old audience going online and watching music videos on such software as Youtube.
