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>>12816210

Also, let's get this other one out of the way while at it:
People never buyed music because of music. Trufax.
If people only cared about music in the music business, a cover band's performance would have exactly the same chances of attracting the same volume of crowd as the original band just by spreading the word, but this never happened no matter how faithful their reproduction may be.
Again, what's the reason?
Look at who are the most popular musicians in these last 100 years, you'll see that people who gained success at all weren't merely a voice etched on a vinyl, or some sort of hermits who never exited their homes if not to walk to the record studio and back again. As a matter of fact, all of them were people who appeared on TV and newspapers, more often than not to talk about things completely separated from music. They did cinema. They wrote books. On some instances they even founded their own political and religious movements, and strived to incorporate their gist into their song.
In short, people have always been following singers not for their music itself, but for the charisma figures behind them. Music purchase has never been about music itself, but about supporting the figures that these singers represent. Whether or not music hold any importance to the crowd, it's intrinsically related to the personal charisma of the performer and the emotional bond he might have created with the fans.
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