Tio i top ger vika för det folk verkligen vill ha

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En massmarknad för massan, majoriteten lyssnar på de populäraste skivorna, ser de populäraste filmerna och läser de populäraste böckerna. Är detta en naturlag eller en parantes i historien? Lyckligtvis lutar det åt att det senare är mer korrekt.

Är det så att 80 procent av musikköparna verkligen tycker att tio i top är den bästa musiken? Chris Anderson på Wired skriver i artikeln "The Long Tail" att när folk får möjlighet att välja fritt på Amazon, iTunes etc. så visar det sig att deras musiksmak är mycket mer blandad än så.

"Hit-driven economics is a creation of an age without enough room to carry everything for everybody. Not enough shelf space for all the CDs, DVDs, and games produced. Not enough screens to show all the available movies. Not enough channels to broadcast all the TV programs, not enough radio waves to play all the music created, and not enough hours in the day to squeeze everything out through either of those sets of slots."

"This is the world of scarcity. Now, with online distribution and retail, we are entering a world of abundance. And the differences are profound."
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"With no shelf space to pay for and, in the case of purely digital services like iTunes, no manufacturing costs and hardly any distribution fees, a miss sold is just another sale, with the same margins as a hit. A hit and a miss are on equal economic footing, both just entries in a database called up on demand, both equally worthy of being carried. Suddenly, popularity no longer has a monopoly on profitability." -- Chris Anderson på Wired

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