is the audience for popular music created by the music industry

the audience isn't created by the industry but because of the culture factory, the industry creates what the audience want. The industries aim is to maximize profits so when a band like boyzone became a huge success, the record labels utilized this formula and we've seen boybands like westlife and jls formed. but trends in popular music are not predictable enough to make the production line analogy viable.

the audience tell the industry what is hot and not but so do some artists who have the economic power to do so for example beyonce. she recorded her alum behind her managers back who was her dad then sacked him afterwards! but she ran to magazine and mtv diaries to help her promote her album so it reached her audience. So the industry doesn't create the audience they just use their opinions through polls and chart shows and use that to their advantage to make money

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