Companies Should Be Allowed To Stop Using Popular Music In Advertising

Since its creation in the early twentieth century the television has been used as a source for advertising. Especially in recent years with massively televised events such as the super bowl advertisers have paid exorbitant amounts of money on advertising by using celebrities and popular music as ways to show off their products. They should be allowed to use popular music in their commercials as is their freedom of expression.

With the use of CDs becoming more irrelevant every day, and online music is more widely used through things like the Google Play store and ITunes. Musicians need a way make themselves known. Most musicians pay for their music to be in advertisements and in this way they can reap huge profits. If companies would stop using popular or unknown music they would in ones opinion kill the music industry as it would make it to hard to get a musicians name out there. (1)
As people will begin to see you as a sellout. Now what is a sellout, a sellout is a person that puts their music into a lot of advertisements meaning that they make so much money that they are sold out to companies. As long as you do not put your music into nearly every commercial you will be okay.(2)

The amount of times that a musician advertises a single song people will eventually get sick of that song. How you kill a song is by overplaying it, witch is why musicians should be careful. Musicians should be smart about how many times they have their songs played by eventually asking to take the song off of their advertisement.

In many ways musicians are discovered by advertising. Though musicians should tread carefully about how much they advertise or they could be considered