Percy Thrillington

The labels had money in the 70s, they could sign many artists and give them time to develop. Nowadays if your first single isnt a hit you're probably dropped, artists arent given the time to develop and that cant help diversity can it.

I think its a widely agreed upon opinion that popular music has never been in as bad a shape as its in now, to say there is more diverstiy now that in the 70s...well thats just plain silly isnt it.

Janszoon

Why is it silly? Recording and releasing music is infinitely more accessible to the average band now than it was in the 70s. Combine that with the way in which the internet has helped expose people to a broader range of music from all across the globe and you wind up with more bands combining more disparate styles into a much broader spectrum of musical output. Compare that to the 70s, an era which you yourself admit was dominated by the limited stable of artists on a handful of large record labels, and it becomes clear that the era of greatest diversity is now not then.

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