China's music industry has entered an era of oligarchy, mainly because copyrights are monopolized. Users prefer music software with more copyrights. Other music software cannot make profits and has to be shut down.
Since entering the Internet era, the way people listen to music has changed. People have gradually shifted from CDs to music software, and are accustomed to listening to music through music software. Xiami Music was once very popular in the web era, but with competition Intensified, coupled with the popularity of smartphones, the best period for copyright layout has been missed, so that now there are only two giants in music software, TME and NetEase Cloud Music. 1. Music copyright is monopolized and the market enters the era of oligopoly.
Since the Internet era, there have been a lot of pirated music in the domestic music market. People can find related music by searching for the songs they like to listen to on the web. However, as the country attaches great importance to music copyright, , a lot of unauthorized music has been removed from the shelves, so that a lot of music cannot be listened to without authorization.
Under this situation, the two major music software began their own layout. They continued to acquire music copyrights, so that a lot of music could only be listened to on TME or NetEase Cloud. TME even occupied 90% of music copyrights, and the market has since entered the era of oligarchy. 2. The user base is too small, causing many music software to go bankrupt.
To survive, music software needs to be profitable. If the scale of software users is too small and the profits cannot cover the costs, it will lead to huge losses in the long run. The reason why Xiami Music was shut down was because it was unable to make a profit due to long-term losses. Investors did not want to let their money go down the drain, so they shut down Xiami Music.
When the music software oligopoly monopolizes the music copyright market, if you want to listen to music, you must become a member, or spend money to purchase the right to listen to the songs. Therefore, software with a large number of music copyrights can actually make money, and those free music The software gradually disappeared and was eventually shut down. 3. China’s music industry has entered an era of oligarchy, and free music listening has become a thing of the past.
As the country attaches great importance to copyright and the market enters the era of oligarchy, the era of free music listening has passed. When we use music software, we will find that the songs we listened to before are not as good as those we listened to if we were not members. , you can only listen to the songs by purchasing them. The past era of free music listening is gone forever. If you want to listen to music in the future, paying will be the general trend.
China’s music industry has entered an era of oligarchy, which has a lot to do with the monopoly of music copyright. If you have any other opinions on this, please leave a message for discussion.