Week 11 - Does the Music Industry create the Market?

Some may say that the music industry does indeed create the market, it definitely does have a lot of control over what exactly goes into it.  What is promotes is clearly all its own choice and the music selected to be in the market must all be there to make a profit.  The music industry needs this control to actually make money.  Once a certain type of music has proven to be popular the industry will leech onto this and find lots of different artists who would fit into this style.  In this way we are seeing the music industry create the market. However, the music industry cannot actually force the consumer to like a certain type of music so this can't always be done.  The music produced and put on the marker must firstly be popular with the consumer therefore in a way it is not actually the industry who creates it, it is the consumer.