Like how supermarkets will provide great space for those companies that the public buys their products over and over, doesn't the music business outlets also provide great space for similar selling acts/songs? Now, with so many artist having their own sites, aren't the buyers even MORE free now to choose who THEY want to be their pop acts? And not having them forced on them, as some believe? (It is sometimes said that all is needed for a hit is for the labels to push any song, any act).???

Pepsi, Coke, have BIG time knowledge on WHAT sells. It matters not that they TRY or NOT to make a beverage that will make humans more healthy, or will please them even more. NO,,,,they KNOW what sells by history of buyers, AFTER they put the products out. NO one force feeds the public. If that were the case, every signed act on every label's priority list would be HITS! ALL of them!

Isn't it the BUYING PUBLIC that have MUCH to choose from that determines who the current pop stars are? And, what songs will be well played and talked about?

Many alternative bands with musician strong songs to most ears will only sell so many units. If they sold more,,,THEY would then be POP! Before, the masses were into what today would be called Alternative bands. Led Zeplin. The Who. They sold TONS. So they were POP! Now, whatever is selling the most,,,that is the POP that the buyers, (kids mainly), WANT to be their POP. If someone here doesn't like the pop of today, but still wants a piece of the music business pie, get contacts and write or produce similar products. Or do what you do and deal with that genre.

The kids today know about some of the music from before, and may even like Beatles, Led Zeplin, etc. BUT, for them to have their own style, they will seek to find something out there that THEY want to hear over and over, if Not the classics. Their buying habits make POP, not the business that gives them what they continue to buy. NO kid buys their songs, and then says,,,,"this is crap,,,I wish they wrote like The Beatles". They would JUST listen to Beatles and NOT buy any current songs. They buy what they WANT! For their reasons.

So, is some, or most, or none of that correct in your mind?

Discuss respectfully, thanks!