Music Stars On Tv

[renegadefm]

Would it be fair to say music artists are a lot more absent on television these days compared to yesteryear, like the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's?

 

It seems growing up as a child of the 70's there was an abundance of music shows like Top Of The Pops for example. Some artists like Marc Bolan even had their own show, with a platform for more artists on there. 

I seem to remember Noel Edmands Swapshop had artists playing whatever was current at the time.

 

Why do we think then that music shows or related are so absent these days? 

[Mozz71]

How many current pop stars have personality enough to head up their own show like the old days?

Not many I would guess.

[renegadefm]

Mozz71, 

No I totally agree, not many to do that at all. 

 

But don't you agree compared to the 70's, 80's,  music is fairly absent these days. 

 

I just don't know how things have become like this. 

[Buenchico]

TV production companies simply haven't got the money to pay the massive sums that the stars of the music world would demand these days.  Ed Sheeran, for example, costs several million pounds to book for a single performance (and that's without the extra that his agent would want for the UK broadcasting rights).

In the 'good old days', the entertainments committee of the teacher training college I attended could book groups such as the Equals, Shaking Stevens, the Tremeloes, the Bay City Rollers and Mud (for our college balls) for very little money indeed.  So TV companies, with far bigger budgets, had no problem at all in booking them too.  

These days TV companies have far smaller budgets (due, in large part, to advertisers switching to using social media instead of TV commercials) at a time when leading musicians expect to receive the same sort of fees that they can get from touring.  That's why our TV screens are now filled with talent shows, such as Britain's Got Talent, which are cheap to make.

[Mozz71]

I think the kind of variety shows that would book those kinds of acts are just not in vogue now. Apart from the Strictly Results show, and the odd chat show (Graham Norton, Jonathan Ross), there isn't really anything on that could use a musical interlude. Even dedicated music shows are a rarity nowadays, besides Jools.

[barry1010]

There are many 24/7 music channels on TV playing non stop music videos such as 4Music and Brit Hits.

I agree TV shows can no longer afford to have guest music spots.

In the good old days many artists would appear free to promote their latest single, now they don't need to due to YouTube and other internet sites.  You can watch all the pop stars, new and old, anytime you like

We still have Jools Holland so all is not lost.

[1ozzy]

When someone like Katy Perry gets paid roughly 5 million dollars for singing 4 or 5 songs at a footy grand final, well, *** me.

No wonder they won't appear on TV music shows.

Who has a big enough budget to support their egos?

 

[Old_Geezer]

It's all Internet these days. The youth are less dependent on the TV as there's so much choice.

[Canary42]

Reality shows are really really cheap (in all senses of the word) so they dominate TV channels these days.

[Khandro]

Music has changed (for the worst ). Ballads are out of fashion, who wants to listen to rap other than kids, and they don't watch television.  

[newmodarmy]

Yes, teenagers rarely bother with TV, nor with radio, these days. Tiktok and Youtube shorts are where they hear music. The charts are dominated by solo artists like Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, Taylor Swift and various rap/drill artists whose violent/crude/mysoginistic lyrics are not suitable for Strictly or The One Show, but children can hear the full uncensored versions on youtube etc. 

[douglas9401]

The format has changed, leaving only the memories of a few old folk on a minor internet spot to bemoan the fact and drop in rap and drill cos they saw the words in The Mail.

Meanwhile in a parallel universe, Elvis may still only be viewed from the waist up.

[newmodarmy]

//and drop in rap and drill cos they saw the words in The Mail.//

Actually douglas, if you're referring to me, whilst I'm not a fan in the main I am very au fait with those genres through my work and I never read the Daily Mail. 

[douglas9401]

I'm hep, daddy-o.

[renegadefm]

I find it a shame really its ended up this way. 

Its also meant that most of the current chart acts of recent years I wouldn't recognise them if they walked past me. They are basically hidden as they get next to zero exposure.

Somebody came on The One Show recently plugging his new single, and I just didn't know who he was from looking at him. If they didn't play a little snippet of his big song I would never have known who it was. 

 

There can't be any attraction today to be a music star in my opinion. 

[barry1010]

Dads in the 60s and  70s wouldn't have known the then current pop stars if they walked past them either, renegade.  

It could be argued that today's young people get the music they want to listen to, rather than the music deemed acceptable by the likes of the BBC.  

[Khandro]

barry; //Dads in the 60s and  70s wouldn't have known the then current pop stars if they walked past them..//

 In the late 50s my dad nearly cleaned himself out buying a 'radiogram' which contained (as it said on the tin) a radio and a  gramophone. 

We then clubbed together and bought two LPs (Long playing records) : Frank Sinatra's 'Songs for Swinging Lovers' and 'Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book'.

A lot of music has moved on since then, but they are still both among my all time favourites.

[renegadefm]

Just proves how dire the situation is of the music industry at the moment.