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# Is Everyone In The Music Business?
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/is-everyone-in-the-music-business/
- Published: 2009-11-23T04:50:00.000Z
- Updated: 2009-11-23T04:50:00.000Z
- Description: Yesterday, during one of those rare moments of personal clarity, I wrote on the MidemNet blog: The line between music fan and music professional has become difficult to draw. The. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/11/is-everyone-in-the-music-business.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:03

Yesterday, during one of those rare moments of personal clarity, I wrote on the MidemNet blog: 

**The line between music fan and music professional has become difficult to draw.** 

**[![image from images.google.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2012875c91b0c970c-300wi)](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2012875c91b0c970c-pi?ref=hypebot.com)** 
The  
demise of traditional media and rise of social networks means that fans  
are as powerful as publicists and radio promoters once were.

…I'm an authority, not because Billboard prints my words, but because I do.   

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