To some extent, audience for popular music is created by the music industry because industry controls the sound of popular music that it has created and therefore its audience. Shuker says, “All popular music consists of a hybrid of musical traditions. Within today’s society, music is largely regarded as an economic product force with record companies striving for maximum profits. Music industry plays a large part in setting and maintaining trends by focussing its attentions and budgets in successful path.
Theodor Adorno suggests that recordings generally sound the same, to some extent this is true because when a successful artist comes through; a trend of same set and style of music tends to be developed. An example of this was during the 90’s when boybands attempt to follow in the success of New kids on the block: Backstreet boys, n*sync etc
Since music industry is a predominant influencing factor therefore audience do highly depend on the music industry for their consumption.
