I wouldn't give too much power to the consumer though. Teenagers are running the music industry and as someone who is a teenager and hears on a daily basis what such a predominant demographic is into, the music world would be even more of a hot mess if there wasn't at least some media manipulation.
That White Iversion or w/e song would be smashing hard and you'd see even more nameless EDM acts in the Top 40 than you could count. And there are actually people who think Drake's dancing in the Hotline Bling video was good.
