The state if the music industry in 2012

'The music industry has changed hugely in the last 10 years'

-The production of music was limited to recent years, before music was produced on vinal, long play and tapes as now there most all recorded for MP3 formats. The music industry has shifted to the new generation of technology.

-Music was distributed by the radio, TV or word of mouth as now distribution has advanced to online software's i.e. social networking sites however this is not always a positive aspect to the music industry. People are able to download music illegally which decreased the amount of music sales. 

• 21 million legally downloaded
• 1.2 billion downloaded illegally

- Lastly the exchange of songs has changed from just being sales in shop's and having to buy the whole album as now you can download music for free.

• Illegally there is a much bigger market.