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THE PURPOSE OF MUSIC VIDEO The overview requirements:  Promotional  Extension of income  Extension of outlets (music channels, DVD and CD sales, website & download)  Synergy  Producers strategies (major label and independent) History Modern music videos were initially made and used as a publicizing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. They are often called ‘promos’. In 1940, Walt Disney created ‘Fantasia’, an animated film based around famous piece of classical music

aspects of the production chain from editing the song to marketing the artist. Finally, the largest target customer segment is the unsigned artists, comprising tens of thousands of individuals desperately hoping to secure a recording contract with labels, while working on a tight budget. The Polyphonic HMI Company is a subsidiary of Barcelona based Grupo AIA and was established in 2002 to market a tool that uses a process to “number crunch” music into its constituent mathematical characteristics

promotion and how did your record label help? Gigging. We spent years just touring and gigging and built up a real strong loyal live following. The more people you get coming to your shows the more people

music industry. With the use of the Internet, independent artist have broke down many barriers, which seemed impossible in the past. Independent artist, have been given the opportunity to find success without the need of a major deal from a music label. Artists have gained access to a number of new ways to reach out to their audience and have been forced to adapt to the change by acquiring a bundle of new skills. With the direction that the music industry has been headed, a lot of music professionals

global aspects of the music industry are given full acknowledgment. In particular, it is recorded music — by far the largest market by value — that has evolved a global structure. Since 2004, it has featured just four `majors ' owning dozens of famous labels and holding recording contracts (or back catalogues) for the vast majority of the world 's top-selling recording artists. The `big four ' major groups, including the UK 's own `home-grown ' giant, EMI Group PLC, also own rights to publish and to

not only reducing an artist to almost indentured servitude, but also cripples record labels themselves. The 360 deal is a common mandatory contract record labels utilize to financially support an artist. This includes advances and funds for promotion, touring, and marketing, all which the artist has to pay back to the label. I believe this problem is significant and warrants further research because the record labels are unconstitutionally taking away artists rights in favor of their own greed,

Cash Money Records is suing Jay Z's Tidal, citing the company has unlawfully licensed Lil Wayne's Free Weezy Album for their service. Despite his lawsuit against Cash Money, Wayne is still an artist on the record label. The label's 50 million lawsuit claims Tidal exclusively streaming the Free Weezy Album is a "desperate and illegal attempt to save their struggling streaming service." On the contrary, Tidal stated that Lil Wayne's contract with the label is not exclusive. The company also claims

for thousands of years, but yet we still do not have a good rating system for music. Music is not officially rated, but given a “Parental Advisory Label” if the artist or record label believes the music contains any “explicit” content. This label was created and adopted by the Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA) in 1985. Even though this label has been around since 1985, it is not a good system for rating music, and is potentially harming artists and the consumer. Parents could be misinformed

music without a record label; they allowed the customer to “price” the digital album by themselves and sold a deluxe CD set version at $80. In order to evaluate the extent to which this strategy may influence on record companies and on the entire record industry, we need to estimate its impacts on the artists and the music audiences. While Radiohead’s release plan may have some certain influences on record labels, those impacts are not big enough to be considered a threat to the record industry.

paradox that has emerged in the music industry within the last ten years: “consumers are listening to music more than ever, yet profits from the sale of recorded music continue to decline” (42). The 2000s in the music industry was a rough time for labels and artists economically due to the various online file sharing and streaming services that have become available to the public. Now that consumers are able to hold thousands of songs in the palm of their hands using iPhones, iPods, and other portable