Music Industry in Indonesia

1. Indonesian music has so many musical genres.
2. Most of the musicians band brought the genre of Malayan Pop or Electro Pop.
3. Some musicians often labeled “ALAY” if it has a low quality music and bad style.
4. [from Wikipedia] ‘ALAY’ is a pop culture phenomenon in Indonesia. It is a stereotype describing something “tacky” and “cheesy.” The Alay culture phenomena spans over a wide array of styles in music, dress, and messaging. It has often been compared to that of the Jejemon phenomenon originating from the Philippines. Although, the former emerged much later and the latter was even admired in the west.
5. Many teens who have a high taste in music usually appreciating Jazz musicians in Indonesia. I think their musicallity really deserves thumbs up.
6. Top Indonesian Jazz musicians are usually invited in many small nor big youth events.
7. Dangdut is the Most Popular Music genre in Indonesia. Derived from Malayan, Indian and Indonesian traditional music elements.
8. Dangdut music has a lot of fans. However, the quality of music is the number one. Dangdut musicians (female) with sexy cheap style are tend to have much anti-fans and usually often used as an adult jokes LOL.
9. Many of musicians releasing “Ramadhan Special Single/Album” for holy Ramadhan month. Ramadan is the 9th month of the Moslem year which is celebrated from beginning to end with fasting.
10. Indonesian musicians has so many fans in Malaysia, even though both countries were involved in their disputes for so long (not my capacity to explain more.) Malaysian musicians receives a very lacking of spotlight in their country.
11. No matter how bad your idols, had a scandal, legal cases, drugs even player LOL. Their musical quality remains the number one that people always appreciating and gaining attention
12. Most of the bands that split or separated by a problem would be difficult to develop again.
13. Teen soloist has so many fans especially for female soloist. Because the quality of their music and good style, that’s why people loved them.
14. Partially of the celebrities sometimes debuted as a singer because it makes money too while their job begin to decrease. Most of them are not being taking seriously in the music industry. They’re just burst for a momment then easily disappear.
15. Statement above applies too for sensational Youtube Artist.
16. Indonesian loves K-Pop wave so much with their music, drama and culture. K-Pop concert tickets are always sold out at a glance.
17. But people hating Indonesian girl/boygroups that imitates much of K-Pop concept with low quality (almost of them.) They have a lot of anti-fans and decreasing the quality of Indonesian music. People considered such a ‘humiliating’ if K-Pop idols know about them.
18. Most people labeled and bashed them as “ALAY” and they being called FAG (sorry) for boygroups.
19. But rookie boygroup “S4″ is an exception, formed in a talent search show. They have been trained by CUBE Ent. and released a new song with sexy rapper HyunA (4Minute) some time ago. Proved they have a lot  of fangirl here.
20. Indonesian also like J-Pop and Japanese musicians, J-Pop has it’s own fans. There is some sister group outside of Japan, one of them also based in Jakarta and they have a huge of fanboy here.
21. There is a musician who reallly don’t like piracy. For me it’s such an useless thing, just like giving a preservative chemicals in food as much as you want which is still moldy.
22. I think musicians should give a better alternative to avoid piracy downloader than the fear of lossing income LOL.
23. But i guess piracy indirectly makes more money for musicians itself right?
24. There is an unwritten rule; musicians can gain popularity easier with some sensation but their future career and musical quality are umpteen numbers

Credit to : http://radiansm.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/thing-you-should-know-about-indonesian-music-industry/