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Music Supported Here to poll the future of music

By | Published on Tuesday 1 February 2011

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Previously reported music community Music Supported Here has announced a poll that will be pose ten questions to industry professionals about the future of their sector, asking those who are polled to predict where the business might be in ten years time. Results of the poll will be announced at an event at The Roundhouse on 18 Mar, where a live panel will also discuss the questions posed and the results off the poll.

Introducing the concept, Horace Trubridge, Assistant General Secretary of the Musicians’ Union, one of the body’s that backs MSH, said yesterday: “Although we can guess, none of us know what the next ten years will do to the music industry – that’s why Music Supported Here will be launching Ten In Ten. The concept is simple. Ten questions that will be answered by experts from the music industry – musicians, fans, managers, labels etc – to give an overall picture of what we think is going to happen”.

He added: “Will illegal downloading become less of a problem? Will recording contracts be fairer? Will there be less new talent emerging? None of us can really be sure of what 2021 holds for the music industry, but we think that the opinions of thousands of people who live and breathe the music industry will produce some pretty accurate predictions”.

The ten questions will go online next week at www.musicsupportedhere.com



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