Chrysalis Records

With technology changing and evolving on a daily basis, dealing with online piracy has become a harder and a near impossible task to stop and prevent. In some way or another, music can be considered durable. As seen up until today, music recordings can be reproduced at anytime and last forever. However, with that durability comes depreciation. Music deprecates as the years progress (source), and consumers have shown that they prefer new popular songs. The problem that rises with that is online piracy

Ariana Grande is a twenty-two year old American pop singer who hails from Boca Raton, Florida. Grande, who was once a child actor on Broadway and Nickelodeon has graduated to an international pop star. With her roles on the Nickelodeon network she was able to begin building a fan base of followers. Her followers which she references as “babes” were extremely useful as her career began to change course. According to IMDB her first hit single 'The Way (feat. Mac Miller)' instantly became a number one

Technology has evolved over the years especially in the music industry. We went from buying hard copy CDs to developing music streaming services. The music industry changed once Napster was created. Napster allowed people to easily share Mp3 files from each other's computers. It was a free streaming service that enabled you to download anything you wanted without having to pay a dime. It made CD sales plummet and hard copy CDs became obsolete. Napster was the foundation of torrenting. It made Limewire

The role of the record company is to nurture, promote, and distribute music around the world. According to www.manta.com, there are approximately seventy-two recording studios and ten record companies in Mississippi. Even when songs are perfectly written and arranged in their final form, the creative process continues through the use of music production. Before an artist records, it is a good idea to prepare the track for the addition of vocals. If your session has a lot of plug-ins and effects

Covers are unescapable and essential part of the music business. Many artists profit from the compulsory law by being able to easily and without infringing, perform and record/reproduce/distribute their styles of another’s song. This often results in thought-provoking new varieties of works being created that, if not for the compulsory license regulations, would certainly not have seen the light of day. Of course, because

The last major technological breakthrough that Frith discusses is the invention of magnetic tape. Magnetic tape was such a huge leap in recording technology, because of the control it now gave artists within the studio. This new tape allowed for artists to splice, dub, cut, and recording multiple track on a tape. This gave artists complete control over their pieces of art. No longer were they restricted by what they could perform live. They could produce pieces of music that had the purpose of not

It bring all sort of types of music to the public. People began to develop a sense of happiness for each other. Eddie Hardwick says, “Some of the records he listen to was based on music categories from Rock and Roll/Disco.” This popularity of certain type of music in the 1950-1960’s in Pittsburgh, Pa. gave individuals vocal freedom to sing like the artist over the radio. It was very influential in

Becoming mainstream in the music industry is one of the biggest accomplishments for a genre, a record company, and an artist. Not only does it take a sufficient amount of effort to get there, it allows takes a sufficient amount to stay relevant and successful. Over time there have been some artist that have helped paved the way to glory for a genre, but also other genres that seemed to look like they were going to be successful but eventually died out. Some reasons why some genres were more successful

to be strategically finding approaches that enable them to file for sampling lawsuits as a scheme to increase their cashflows. Frank Ocean’s “Super Rich Kids” samples from Mary J. Blige’s “Real Love” to which the record label, TufAmerica, had filed for copyright infringement. The record label insisted that Ocean did not secure a license to use “Real Love”, which the label only owns 3.15% of the song. TufAmerica also sued Kanye West for sampling from Eddie Bo’s “Hook & Sling” and “claimed that although

box” ( Schoenherr, 2005) which was coined operated phonograph, which was the first time audio record through the form of music making an impact on people’s lives. By 1893, the trend of audio recording not only slowly in developing of itself, but in the formatting of it as well, with in this year span it jump from the original cylinder to rubber discs, which marked the beginning of the shift to the record format. Now fast forward to 1906, by this time the Velvet-Tone was announced by Columbia, as a