Industry woes hitting country May 15, 2008

Through the posting of blogs and comments, i’ve realised this site gives automatic reference to other posts that may be talking of similar topics. So i took word press’s sugestions up and checked out a couple. One I saw interested me as it spoke about how the digital age is effecting country music, and how over the years of the introduction of the digital age, country was holding its own and being the strongest in physical sales. The blog is from businessweek.com and titled “Fine on the media”  it mentioned how, and which seems quite obvious now that i look at much of the research that is coming together, how country is based on loyalty to an artist and thrives on the community aspect and relationship between artists and fans, which can be lacking in other genres. I thought this was kinda of nice see, although not good difital age effecting music.. but how coutnry has been one (until recently) to stay strong in the digital age and only recently have sales start to decline. Its a score one for the country music genre!