Generation X

2000s or Milleniums
In the '00 Dance developed at lightning speed and this music stream has grown into the most important music streams of the 21st century. Major dance events are hosted all over the world. The Dutch DJs have a great influence and are the world top.

Dance culture changes over the years. In the eighties they were often illegal, small-scale parties. These became increasingly large in the nineties and around the turn of the century this changed into true festivals focused on this genre. All kinds of dance festivals are emerging or are starting to take on bigger and bigger forms. For example, in Belgium I Love Techno and in the Netherlands Sensation, Dance Valley and Lovefields are known. Belgian trance groups such as Milk Inc., Sylver and Dutch trance DJs such as Tiësto, Armin van Buuren and Ferry Corsten are also known.

Not only dance music has this tendency. It is true that the expansion of dance festivals is increasing, but on a smaller scale you also see a tendency for live music played by bands. The MP3 causes CD and LP sales to drop and people care less about their record cabinet collections. As a result, the attendance numbers of live concerts are increasing and festivals are increasingly organized. In the eighties there were a few dozen, nowadays there are a few hundred festivals every year in the Netherlands alone. Streaming makes the impact of the internet on record companies' sales even more oppressive. Online services such as Spotify are emerging and major record companies such as Universal and EMI in particular are laying off many staff over the course of the decade. More than ever, the term indie is used. In the 1980s, this term was still used for independent bands (independent) that became known through gigs, without record companies, and then, with their commercial breakthrough, to start their own record companies or to sign a record contract after all. From the mid-00s, this increasingly became without record companies and the artists became known through festivals and the internet. As a result, some musicologists believe that pop music is becoming less and less commercial, while it only seemed to become more commercial in the 20th century.

[bron: Wikipedia]