Is the audience for popular music created by the music industry?

When looking at the audiences of popular music we can see certain patterns that have been triggered by the music industry such as when a boy band such as Boyzone impacts the music industry, other labels will produce similar boy bands, such as Westlife. Today we see this more with the increase in U.K rap acts, as 4 years ago, you would not see the likes of dizzee rascal charting; now there is a huge group or urban artists in the charts (Tine Tempah, Chipmunk, Wretch 32 & N-Dubz). Therefore this is creating a more music for similar audiences, and does create an audience made by the music industry.

Theodor Adorno states that recordings generally sound the same. I don’t believe this though with many labels producing similar acts it may be hard to tell the difference between certain artists. One can choose what music to listen too but may be influenced by huge promotional campaigns to listen to a certain song or artist; therefore the music industry does create an audience for popular music to an extent.