Websites

There are typical codes and conventions for a music artists website. They typically have a home, news, music, and gallery page. On which will be filled with all things to do with the artist. Generally they also have links to social media sites such as Twitter, Youtube and Facebook as well so that you can access all information to them easily from the one site. The main function of the website is to inform the fans of what the artist is up to and sell to them, and  to promote the artist to the target audience. For example you might not be a huge fan of the artist but if you went onto their website for a mundane reason and it automatically played their new music video and then gave you a link to purchase the song, you'd be more likely to buy it.

Genre

Each genre has a particular style to their websites. For example the rock genre tend to stick to abstract shapes as the backgrounds or just plan back colours, showing the bands interests and style (Cage The Elephant and The Hives). The pop genre ALWAYS have a large image of the artist, which sometimes flicks through similar images as you scroll down the page, showing how important star image is (Britney Spears). The rap genre tend to have videos as their immediate visual , showing that the music is what they care about/ the message they want to give (Profession Green).