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The traditional record labels dominated music market is coming to an end. If you haven’t noticed the latest MP3 download services on Amazon.com, you’re missing the beginning of the end of traditional music distribution era.
The big players now are teaming with social networking web sites such as MySpace.com to find new ways to sell music. Why? They can’t help it. people don’t want to pay for CDs anymore. Plus, there’s no need to buy CDs when you can download them for free somewhere on the Internet. After a few years of battling, the big labels finally realized the trend is irreversible.
Still, this is not new for the independent/unsigned artist s. Independent artists have long been promoting their recordings via unconventional channels. The entry of the big record labels on the Internet music communities will have an impact on the independent artist s. But unsigned artists still have one obvious advantage over the big labels – giving out music for free.
Why ought to you give away free music on the Internet? One obvious reason is that people don’t want to pay any more. people I mean by teenagers and generation Y and beyond. Those are the audiencess who don’t understand life in the absence of the Internet. You probably can find a free copy of any given song on the Internet if you dig far enough.
The latest proof to this is that big record labels are teaming up with the social networking web sites to  promote  and hand out music. This is the marketing niche where independent artists have had since the beginning of the Internet usage. So how much impact will independent artists feel? Big. The social networking communities have been independent artist s’ marketing channel, the entry of big players will certainly push the small performers to the back burners. For independent artists to achieve any form of success on the Internet, they have to take radical steps that big labels won’t take such as giving away music for free. At this point  we  don’t know how the record label/social networking music alliance will work out, but one thing for certain is that the music won’t be all for free downloading.