Although the music industry ‘creates’ the market, it depends on the consumers and whether they take to it or not. The music industry own all the music made and have the distribution rights so can control what music makes it onto the market and what doesn’t. However, this is then affected by how consumers respond to the market. If the music is popular with audiences, then the music industry will continue to produce similar types, however, if audiences do not take do it then the music industry will have to create music that the consumers are after.
The music industry had a lot more control over the market in the past then they do now. With the advent of digital music and a wide variety of music readily available to download from the internet, consumers can create their own market, where the music they consume is not limited to what the music industry provide. So in conclusion, it can be said that both the music industry and consumers create the market.
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While much of this is good, you should be careful in stating that the music industry (as a kind of all powerful entity) create all the music. They certainly play a major role in the process but there must surely be an individual moment of expression at some point in it.
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