Jobs in the Music Industry That Didn't Exist Five Years Ago

Want to get into the music industry but can't sing? Consider these five music jobs that didn't exist prior to the digital music era.

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Ever since Napster came along, the music industry has been struggling to stay on top of developing trends in technology surrounding music. While album sales are plummeting, it’s clear that music is as necessary to life as air or water (or why else would everyone expect it for free?). In the past few years we’ve seen a million copies of a record purchased off a rapper by a cell phone company (no hate, we see you Jay), and we’ve seen that same rapper turn around and purchase a $100-apiece mixtape off a SoCal rapper who simply felt that’s what his art was worth. Some artists don’t even bother charging for their work at all anymore, instead choosing to tour extensively and rely on high margin tangible items that people still want (we’re referring to tour merch, guys, you know, T-shirts).

And so we constantly find ourselves in a whole new world; when everything changed back in the late 1990s, a whole generation suddenly thought of music as a free commodity, and the flux in coping with that new ideology has left us with a very malleable industry. You may have heard about the "collapse of the record industry," but music will never die, and so the music industry will never die either. But in its ever-evolving state, strategies have arisen to get the right music to the right people. In doing so, the industry has created jobs that have never before existed.

Playlist Maker

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Social Media Manager

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In-House Content Team

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Digital Media Sales on Streaming Services

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