Video Killed The Radio Star

Video Killed The Radio Star

The music industry has changed drastically throughout the years, before the radio came out people didn't have many ways of listening to music, they had to go either to the store buy the records or go to the actual concert to watch them live, but when the radio came out only people who had music could actually buy it because back then it was luxury and not many people could buy it.

And different from back then, now a days we have so many ways of listening to music because it is everywhere, in adverts, movies, television, video games, people playing inside train station, you can go to iTunes and and download digital copies and music videos legally or going to music shops and buying Cd's but there is also so many ways of download music illegally now a days when back then the only way they had to download illegal music was through Napster when it came out in 1999 but it shutdown in 2001.

But the music industry wasn't the only things that has changed, the music business and technology too. the music industry has changed so much because now, they make so much easier for us to hear new songs of all genres and countries. 

Back then people were worrying more about how the music sounded and making sure it sounded good than exposing it.

in 1877 was invited the Phonograph by Thomas Edison and after his invention that's when it all started out and what I mean by that is, before people couldn't listen to music if they weren't on place where the band/artist was performing but after the Phonograph being invented people started listening to music through a was cylinder, they just put the was cylinder in the phonograph and sound would come out from it but the only problem with the Phonograph was the price of it and not everyone back then could afford it, only the people with a good life style, people with money.

The first instrument where you could actually recording things was wax cylinder which came out after the phonograph being released. The bad thing about the was cylinder is that you couldn't listen to the record too many times or it would melts because it was made of wax.

The first website Napster that was created in 1999, was the first website where people around the world
could listen to songs, share it and download for free but the bad thing about this website is that it wasn't legal because people was listening to music and downloading it for free which is illegal and because of that, the court and shutdown Napster completely.
But now a days, there are so many legal ways where you can listen to music for free without having to pay, for example youtube, bandcamp, soundcloud, etc but there are also so many illegal websites where you can not just listen but also download music for free or convert videos to mp3 etc.
Now a days, the most used and popular legal website to download music is iTunes, and it came out in 2001 by Apple.

Apple did not just created a legal way of download music through the portable music player iTunes, it also created the first iPod months after iTunes being released and with the iPod you could finally listen to digital music and not having to bring a bunch of Cd's, tapes etc with you everywhere because all your music would be in the iPod. 
But Apple wasn't the only one creating portable media players, Sony and Samsung and many other brands also made their version of the iPod with different looks which is called Mp3 player and it does the same things as the iPod.

They way we listen to music now has changed so much from how people used to listen to music back, the technology has created so many advanced products and different way of listening to music. It all started with the Phonograph in 1877 but not everyone could buy it because of how expensive it was, the from Phonograph to radio which was cheaper and people could afford to buy it, then from Walkman (CD player) to iPods and Mp3 players. There are so many question of what is coming, what the technology is bring for us next.