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To simplify things, there are basically four major companies, known as the “Big Four, that have most of the control within the music industry. These companies are: Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, and EMI. “In essence a Big Four Labe is a corporation that manages several smaller businesses, called subsidiaries. For example, the subsidiary for Sony is known as Columbia Records. The subsidiaries have their own staff, are allowed to sign their own artists, and can make most of their own financial decisions”(McDonald). While these subsidiaries have a majority of the control over their business, they still must report and answer to the main company, which controls the overall budget and makes decisions on staff reduction. In addition to creating labels that are divisions of the main company, sometimes the Big Four will offer distribution to Independent Indie Labels. The label offers the Indies releases to stores along with their own releases. With…

DJ Danger mouse sampled a cappella versions of rapper Jay-Z’s Black Album mixed with instrumental samples off of the Beatles The White Album. Two problems arose from this album. The first was that the record label EMI retained the Beatle’s music, and the second was that the cost for a clearance fee to use the Beatles’ music is extremely high. The record label EMI decided to send cease and desist orders over the uncleared Beatles samples. DJ Danger mouse could not sell the album essentially…

are major hits, including The Sex Pistols and The Rolling Stones. These groups helped Virgin Records land the top six record label position in the world. At this point of his life Branson had been very successful, but it was not enough, he wanted more. Branson took his profits from the record label and started the Voguer Group in 1981. Then soon after, he started the airline Virgin Atlantic in 1984, and a series of Virgin Megastores. This is where it all started to go downhill for Branson. He…

pursue what it might be they love, however the truth of the matter is merely opposite. Through research i’ll discover why that is and also learn how digital technology has impacted the music industry. To keep the paper from turning into a book i’ll limit myself to topics. The topics I will be searching will be how digital technology has impacted record labels, the format in which we hear music, radio stations, and musicians themselves. According to Paul E. Ceruzzi, and William Aspray, authors…

The Impact of Technology on the Music Industry How are things different in the music industry compare to how it was in the past now that technology change it? This is part of the field of Information Technology (I.T) because it is part of the entertainment district and the entertainment district uses. Technology that made it flourish,so when technology evolve so does the entertainment district especialy the music industry.Online buying of music help’s the music industry for the better because it…

Should musicians change their tune? This question is a controversial question asked my hundreds of people all around the world. Times are changing. The way people would market their music in the past in completely different than how it's marketed now. In today's times we access music on our smartphones rather than buying a physical copy. Having direct access is much simpler than buying a CD. The appeal of being able to take our music with us anywhere we go excites today's generations. We…

To pose the question, “are streaming services good for the music industry?” you have to look at the stance of the music industry. It can’t be taken entirely from perspective of the consumer. Myself being a consumer of music, a poor one at that, I’d take the opposite perspective of what I’m about to state. I do not think streaming services are good for the music industry… but I do think it’s a start! If you look at the music industry as a whole across the world, it’s been on a large decline in…

Yaves Ellis is an extremely busy man. The Christian rapper-turned minister-turned city activist is one of the most influential people in the City of Columbus, Ohio. By 6am. Ellis is already up and on the move. He makes his way across the north side of the city checking in on his three recording studios and the artist signed to his music label the “Sling Shot Movement Group.” When you break it down Yaves Ellis is a Christian rapper. He started at the age of seven and was signed to a major…

ITunes music (Apple) store entered into the music market in 2003. However, prior to Apple 's entry into the digital world of music, the industry was fighting this new wave of music getting released to customers. However, with Apple 's release of its iPod digital-media player (2001) and adding the iTunes Store in 2003, they became the gatekeeper of digital downloads. Consequently, they promptly became supreme inside this new swim lane of the music industry. The key player that allow this was…

Remember when it was considered a mortal sin for a band to license¬¬¬ their music for use in an advertisement? Those days are long gone. Inevitably, the world evolves and those who refuse to conform to the new standard are left in the dust wondering how they steered wrong. MTV changed everything when it first aired; Napster did the same two decades later; Apple continued the trend with the introduction of the iPod and iTunes. Artists need to keep up with the exponentially changing way that the…