The world has attached a web that gets closer every day. Now there is the first contest of ten under hundreds of thousands of bands on myspace, voting is done by the community.On „Myspace‘s Top Band“ (1) there are now Rock Bands like „The Nuances“ from France listet besides Electro Acts like „Massdriver“ from Norway, Street Hip Hop by „Alkeyman“ from „Pennyslavia, USA“ and absolutely Fun Pop by „Abanda Shake“, who says she´s from „Shake City,
Antarktis“.
Leader of the polls in second week of contest is a mixed crew from London, LA and Brazil called „Former Human Beings“ with an innovative stile they call “ Electronica“.
55 years after the first pop charts started officially in the UK, there is a trend of finding out who really is in control of that money making machine.
Huge major companies, media control institutions and big conglomerates, anonymous tycoons and their tv and air radio stations, a whole industry is making billions and billions of Dollars every month worldwide, benefitting from an old fashioned way of constructing a list of top acts the fans never voted for.
Who needs promoters, producers, labels, analog distributers, CD factories, media managers, A&R´s, expensive commercials that cost an arm and a leg artists and fans would love to use differently, who needs the so-called „music industry“ at all when Bands produce their own product and people can vote for it and buy it online, if they want to?
„Myspace‘s Top Band“ is said to be planning to extend their polls, their effort is simply needed by many people worldwide these days.
Something is going to happen, the old media world – actually a bunch of exploiters taking their tolls – is just vanishing, leaving no gap behind but more ressources to artists and users.
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http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=151941425