Predictions+for+the+Future

=Future of Music=

While most take this page as nothing more than a horoscope, or perhaps pure opinion, but it would be much more useful to actually look at trends and a worldly opinion, and use it to possibly tell the future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_album_artists

This is a list of the top 100 best selling artists of all time. There are only 3 that started recording with a major label in the past 10 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_best-selling_albums#Best-selling_albums_by_country

This is a list of the 75 top selling albums of all time. only 6 of them were released in the 2000's, with all 6 of those being released before 2003. The only one out of the six with more than 20-29 million albums, the lowest bracket, sold is The Beatles "1" album, which is a rerelease.

However, if you look at a chart looking at the list of top singles of all time, the 2000's fare significantly better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles_worldwide

Out of the 127 listed singles, the 2000's make up 23 of them. The reason? music buyers are moving away from record store's and full albums and toward downloaded singles. This page would be impossible to write without a good bit of guessing, but using simple proportions, we can figure out a trend.

2000's - 50 million albums sold 1990's - 170 million 1980's - 120 million 1970's - 250 million 1960's - 200 million

These numbers are only taken from the top 10 albums of each year. for the most part, its a downward sloping graph, despite the growth of population. There are several different ideas for this, but the main two that i would think most people would come to are A. lack of interest in music, or B. Different methods of getting music. Because A. is untrue, and either A or B is the only logical choice, B is the only logical choice.

But what are the new sources?

Illegal Downloading.

Pre 90's America didn't have access to the internet, and post 90's did. So if you look at trends in music, you can tell that America, and the world, will eventually only get its music through free downloading. This will cause one of two scenarios.

1. Record labels give out all music for free 2. Record labels don't give out music for free, all music is downloaded illegally.

People refuse to pay for things they think they deserve, but what they don't realize is that if musicians aren't paid, they'll stop making music. Everyone needs a job. So what is America heading to? =The end of music!=

of course, that's just one scenario.

=And the cool stuff=

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/26/future-ipods-5-amazing-ip_n_333703.html







This is what the people of 2010 think you'll be using and listening to in the near future.

In a survey of 25 people, this is what the youth of today think we'll be listening to the most in the future.
 * = Rock ||= Rap ||= Techno ||= Country ||= Scene ||
 * = 3 ||= 5 ||= 10 ||= 1 ||= 6 ||
 * = 12% ||= 25% ||= 40% ||= 4% ||= 24% ||

=Recap=

So if you wanted a brief synopsis of the musical future, it would be that we will all be getting incredibly small MP3 players that will apparently not have music on then because musicians wont be getting paid.


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