Record companies usually produce artist or bands that they think will be successful by copying other acts. In the past we have seen it with bands such as the Spice Girls, their success influenced the music industry to bring out similar girl bands like Girls Aloud and The Saturdays because they know it will sell. You have record labels producing similar bands and sometimes it is hard to tell the difference e.g. Boyzone and Westlife sound similar. As Theodor Adorno believes that ‘recordings generally sound the same.’ Which is true in this case when record labels produce similar acts. The audience of popular music is influenced by the music industry but not created by it. Music becomes popular because people choose it, the industry then respond by creating more of the same type of music because it is in high demand. Knowing that it will do well in the charts.
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