Should Art and Music Be Added to Compulsory Courses?

In a society where overall qualities are much emphasized, talents with good taste of art and music usually have advantages over their peers. In view of this, into the spotlight comes the question: whether the two subjects should be added to compulsory courses or not. Some people hold that it is essential to upgrade them to compulsory courses in view of increasing the awareness of the importance of these two subjects among students, so that students just will not neglect them any more. However, to others, those two subjects rising to compulsory courses is far from being appropriate. Students may end up in failure to do well in any subject since their time and energy get too scattered. From my perspective, making art and music compulsory courses is too big a step to be taken in a large scale, considering the lack of professional teachers and teaching instruments in many schools. But it is highly recommended that some qualified schools start to include these two subjects as required courses.