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

I think that the audience for popular music is partially created by the music industry, but that audience determines what is considered popular music. For example, “the music industry is extremely powerful in its ability o control the vast proportion of music that is produced an distributed. this situation deeply affects the relationship between creative artists and their public”. Thus, the music industry will strive to create a “product” which will appeal to the biggest audience and sell the most records leading to the production of similar bands with similar sounds. However, this doesn’t account for the fact that it’s the audience’s taste for the music which makes it popular. Popular music will be determined by the audience’s requests on the radio and album purchases/downloads not the music industry’s. The music industry puts out music they believe will become popular, but the audience is what makes it popular.