Types of Bands

Artists and bands can be sectioned into two different categories known as Organic and Synthetic. 

Organic: Organic is used to describe bands and where the music comes first, they then create the music that they want to attract record labels (if signed) so they can sell their music to the correct market segment.  They can appeal to a huge audience as well as often appealing to a niche. An example of an organic band are Radiohead, where the music comes first! They formed their own band, wrote their own songs and played their own instruments. The music is important to them, not the money and fame that comes with it. Organic music artists make the genre of music they want to and then record labels when they get signed. They they try and sell the music they love to the correct market segment.








Synthetic: Synthetic refers to the kind of 'X-Factor' methodology which it is known that the record label do all of the work for them. A gap in the market is identified, and then it is exploited by the development of music, and often the artist, to suit this gap. A good example of the 'manufactured' artists are 'One Direction' where money is the ultimate goal in this operation. They do not play instruments or write their own songs, they are just the faces of the music. They were put together on X Factor to suit the audience market, which were young teenage girls.