ABSTRACT
Hungary has a small post-war recorded popular music repertoire. Even though the state policy for recorded and live music changed from authoritarian to benign in the late 1980s, the weak and small national record industry was particularly hit by the global recording crisis from 2000. The accumulated recorded repertoire or A&R spending is low compared to mature music markets. This repertoire must find its audience in an increasing global competition and within a music economy that is characteristically different from the US or UK markets.
