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Millions of Dollars are spent in the music industry everyday. Thousands of songs are being played everyday in different parts of the world whether be on your phone, computer, TV, or radio. Behind every song there is a lot of money, work and a marketing strategy. Strategies that have changed throughout time because of the increasing advances in technology. One of those technologies is the change of songs unto a digital format and online streaming against the classical CD by CD sell and distributions

signed The Clash. An A&R representative Dan Loggins told Jon Savage, it was “easier for older, more experienced record people to contemplate taking on Punk than the contemporaries of Punk in the record companies” because they had seen other trends in music come and go (qtd. 304). Similar to the EMI deal offered to the Sex Pistols, CBS was not thinking about the implications of signing The Clash for artistic reasons or to further the band as musicians. Loggins says frankly, “The record companies are in

and what do they have to do with tracking music. Last thing we are going to look at is what royalties are and who is in charge of distributing them. To start with we have to talk about R.I.A.A. R.I.A.A stands for “Recording Industry Association of America”. It is a trade organization in the United States that represents the recording industry. 85% of all legally sold recorded music in the U.S. is manufacture, created, and distributed by members of this group. It was originally formed in 1952 with

enjoy the songs or not, there is something about music within popular culture that drives the American public wild. Sadly, for quite sometime the music industry was largely closed off to women. Of course there were obvious exceptions to this, since talented female artists have existed through the ages, but on the whole there were not many female artists that got a lot of airplay and certainly none were considered significantly influential in the music industry. Recently the United States has begun

Parents also serve as a blockade when it comes to the subject of music. Parents are very cautious and get very defensive of what their children listen to. Parents block children from hearing the truth or prevent their child from seeing how an artist expresses themselves, because of a few raunchy lyrics and profanity? I often listen to music on my iPhone, but since Apple launched its Apple Music project, my music only plays in the edited or clean version, which is very annoying. I am a huge Future

changed the music industry for both artists and users. This is an evaluation of 5 of the most popular cloud-based music streaming applications. These applications allow people to have access to more music than ever before, wherever they are. Each app has different features that may make them appealing to different people, so it is important to evaluate them to see strengths and weaknesses. Background Since music streaming on the cloud has begun, it has changed the way people listen to music and also

EUROPEAN COMMISSION Competition DG Information, communication and multimedia Media Vertical and horizontal integration in the media sector and EU competition law Miguel Mendes Pereira* “The ICT and Media Sectors within the EU Policy Framework” U.L.B.-SMIT (Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunications) CEAS-Norwegian School of Management, Oslo Telenor Broadcast Brussels, 7 April 2003 OUTLINE Introduction I. Convergence and integration 1. Technical convergence 2. Economic convergence

Music Industry Essay Introduction A i: I am going to be looking at the music publishing companies Universal Music Group, Inc. (UMG), one of the biggest major labels in the music industry and Beggars Group Limited, (BGL), a powerful UK independent label. UMG own and administrate VEVO and in recent news Google Inc. is reportedly looking at investing a 10% stake worth £42million. The deal has not yet been signed but it is said that it will include a renewal agreement that will see VEVO

Music Week magazine article In the Music Industry there are four main areas: 1. Live Performance 2. Record Companies/Labels 3. Publishing Companies 4. Artist Management It is vital to know how these four main areas of the music industry operate to this date, what is happening around you and the impact it has on the world. Also, it is important to understand their business mechanism, their role within Music Industry and the relationships between the areas and how they link. Live Performance:

corporation you researched. The company researched was Universal Music Group because the music industry is ever growing and I wanted to know more about the company. As we all know, technology has been a major part of the music industry both good and bad. Technology has helped plenty of artists and hurt others. Since the introduction of the mp3 and the popularity of the IPOD device, compact disc sales have declined and more music is being released without the record company’s permission. Some may