Has the recession been effecting music?


Lately I've been hearing a lot of people getting mad at records that glorify getting paid because of the state of the economy. All I can say about that is ok, whatever, there have always been songs about getting paid so just don't listen to them if you don't like them. Clearly, the recession so far hasn't had much effect on music. TI just sold 500,000 copies in 1 week which was more than his last album pre recession. Jeezy did 250 his first week. Lil Wayne is almost at 3 million. 2008 has been a huge come back year for hip-hop artists. So my question would be to you: do you think the recession over time will have an effect on the quality of music on mainstream radio? I would hope it would help considering if you're riding around stressed about paying a mortgage and jobless the last thing you should want to hear is crank that spiderman.. But then again, music has a very young consumer base so I guess it will be up to the kids.

Posted by bill jabr at 12:38 PM  

1 comments:

Knight Rider said...

yooooo, i think it is effecting music. Just the artist that aren't as big as the ones you mentioned. Think about it, there have been like 3 albums released in the past 4 weeks lol. The record labels are feeling the crunch, so they are throwing the money behind the bigger names to try and re-coop all the loses on these other albums.

October 28, 2008 at 8:27 AM  

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