I think music as an industry is going through a little bit of a transformation. With an increasing breadth of selection, and a stagnating amount of money being

I think music as an industry is going through a little bit of a transformation. With an increasing breadth of selection, and a stagnating amount of money being spent on music and entertainment (relatively speaking), money is going to be spread around a little more. The superstar artists aren't ever going to go away, but they are going to be fewer of them, and they aren't going to be as big. The sad part about this is that the little guys, the "middle class musicians" are going to struggle to do it professionally. Is this that surprising though? There are plenty of very very talented musicians out there who DON'T make enough to go pro. Those who do are more lucky than good, and this shift will both enable more people to gain an audience, and prevent more people from making enough to live off it.