![]() ![]() Leona Lewis' number one single, "Bleeding Love", is a perfect example of the modern hit. But when the BBC revived the show for a final run in 1987, the Beeb's decision to use a telephone voting system created the format we still watch today (prior to this, rather sweetly, the audience was invited to post their vote in). Opportunity Knocks debuted on radio in 1949, then appeared on TV in 1956 where it came and went for three decades. The talent show is nothing new to the British audience. ![]() On the one hand, fewer people are actually buying music, and yet it's ubiquitous: in shops on mobile phones online and on TV, especially prime-time weekend TV where programmes like X-Factor, The Voice and Britain's Got Talent dominate the ratings wars. So, in a sense, music is now paradoxically both more and less popular. Yet that same technology has also destroyed a band's traditional form of income: selling CDs. On the one hand technology is changing the rules of how a band interacts with its audience and how it supplies its music to that fanbase. Britain's music scene is at an interesting juncture in the second decade of the 21st century. ![]()
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