Blog 3

Not only has the sequence of lyrical content, genres, and it’s many forms of deliverance changed within the last 20 years.  The music industry is no longer conducted at firms, contracts aren’t always negotiated in person, and music is no longer on cassettes. Due to the high accessibility of mobile phones; consumer are now able to download and/or use services provided on these devices which varies from music, games, magazines, books, all now available, digital, and mobile.  With the high accessibility to these different music search engines, such as Pandora. Songwriters have been losing a lot of money. For example, Avicii and Aloe Blaccs’s wrote hit song “Wake Me Up” had more than 168 million streams on Pandora since it’s released in 2013, it’s three songwriters were paid only $12,359. Music streaming engines has lowered the income revenue for songwriters. These disappointing payoff is a result of the Copyright’s act  which allowed anyone to sell copies of songwriters music without permission as long as they paid the composer a fee of two cents per copy. Evidently leaving songwriters with little to no pay. However, with all of the confusion surging over streaming music apps and the buying and selling of Beats to Apple, a new adversary had arisen. Apple by well then expanded its rehash system by entering the streaming music business. Apple swoops in replacing streaming music apps, by finding incentives for consumers to switch over to there streaming service. Now making apple a big contender in the business.  This service is built within each iPhone, and nowadays everyone has one. APPLE WINS !