Organic and Synthetic Bands/Groups

In the music industry there are Organic band/groups and Synthetic bands/groups. Organic bands or groups are created by people coming together and making music to then be discovered by a record label, who then markets the band on the qualities that they have, hoping that they become popular. The record label will have to market the band to the correct audience. Organic bands were more have been more dominant since early bands such as the Beatles. The Beatles were a band that formed by themselves in late 50's and then did tours to become more popular, to eventually become to biggest most popular band in the world ever.
The Beatles have been ranked as the greatest band of all time and have an estimated album sales of 600 million album sale worldwide.
In the UK alone they have had more number one albums and have sold more singles than any other British artist/band.

In 1966 was the first synthetically made band were The Monkees who were put together by film-maker Bob Rafelson, who originally created the group for a TV series about a 'band who wanted to be The Beatles, but were never successful.' The TV sitcom aired from 1966 to 1968 and had 53 episodes. All of the members were all actors but could also play instruments but were not as near as musically talented as The Beatles at that stage. After the sitcom was cancelled in 1968, The Monkees become a full time band. The Monkees did not tend to writ their own music as none of the members were able to do this as they were not professional musicians, instead they had music written for them and they would perform the music and make albums. The band became very popular and at their music peak in 1967 outsold The Beatles. As of 2012 the band has sold 65 million album and single copies worldwide.

The 90's was the beginning of multiple synthetically made boy and girl groups. These groups were formed by record labels who try to market a particular image of the boy or girl band to try to bring them into fame to make the companies money.