It can be easily argued that the music industry are constantly controlling the music we listen too. Some songs are clearly more highly publicised than others, appearing on the radio and television in order to gain a wider audience. Record companies pay large amounts of money for their songs to get into the public sphere. A lot of people choose to avoid the lure of commercialized popular music which in recent times has in itself become fashionable, however the music industry being savvy realised the increase in popularity of indie music and began being out similar style acts in order to pull the money back into its ball court. The music industry has a lot of control over its audience, although they cannot force the public to buy their commodities they can pretty much force them to listen to it which is where they manage to sneak into the public subconscious and get away with producing manufactured rubbish and making money out of it.
