Now that sales are dying for most artists, promo is non-existent (and doesn't do much for albums or songs in the long term anyway), music videos are bland and don't do much for the single anymore, and artists give up on their work as soon as they release due to a lack of enthusiasm from a lack of profit, I think it's time to bid a final farewell to pop music.

The industry will become more and more dominated by a select few. The rest will most likely suffer imo.

this is subjective... but I suppose you have a point

Pop music will never die.

oh my lord, this is easily one of the worst threads i've ever seen. bookmarking for the slightly devastating kii

Pop music is currently better than it's been since the mid-2000's for me.

pop music right now is boring as **** but hopefully there's something exciting around the corner

I guess it's time to close ATRL.

Can't be dead when 3 million people bought Adele's album in one week, which has never ever been done before in the history of the music industry.

It's dead because there's nobody releasing music that's actually worth listening to

The music industry needs to find some artists, people with legitimate substance to revive it.

Pop music exists outside the west you know, y'all need to broaden your horizons

I don't think the OP is talking about the quality of pop music...Remember the days (mid-2000's) when music videos used to be good and artists worked their asses off to promote? Nowadays there's no budget and promo has almost no effect...

I really think the pop music monopoly is coming to an end. We will have a very selected few artists who sell a lot occasionally due to hype but the rest will just be indie/one hit wonder artists.

Streaming and the digital age has literally ruined everything, I hate it.

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Well, nobody is promoting now though. Not from any genre. In the 90's and 00's, we had heavy, aggressive promo from not only pop, but also r&b, rock and even country artists. The industry doesn't have that kinda money or power anymore and we have to accept that. As for the pop music monopoly, other than its 2008-2012 run, it's been long over and didn't even exist in the golden eras of promo (90's - 00's) for the most part.