Creation Records

Should musicians use their music in advertisements? A question that has spawned lots of debate in the music world. Musicians using their music in advertisements and allowing their music to be streamed on Spotify has been a good thing. Musicians want their names to be out there. They want more fans to listen to their music. Musicians using music on Spotify or ads is not selling out, its smart. In recent years music has gone into the digital age where it can now be played on iTunes, Spotify and…

Yanchuan Guo Prof. Emily Perez English 101A February,20 2016 Annotated Bibliography Source 1 Greenblatt, Alan. "Future of the Music Industry." CQ Researcher 21 Nov. 2003: 989-1012. Web. 20 Feb. 2016. Greenblatt’s text explains the impact of free downloading music from the internet in recent years. Many music producers start to sell their licensed music in a low price against piracy. But many people wonder if this way of selling music will remain profitable in the future. He also believes that…

sales. The first half of 2014 showed streaming bring in $834 million compared to $905 million in sales. In 2015, streaming revenue topped physical sales at $1,028 million to $748 million. (Richter) The majority of this revenue still goes to major record labels and artists. For the lesser known folks out there, the best way to make money might be Bandcamp. Bandcamp leaves everything price-wise upto the artist to decide for fans to directly pay to them. Artists can choose how many of their songs…

Rather than imprinting grooves on a cylinder, the gramophone used a flat disc much like a vinyl record to record sound. The convenience of the disc allowed for the gramophone to be reproduced more easily than the phonograph, though Edison continued to advance his invention, developing the motor-driven and the wax cylinder phonographs. A few years later…

computers and other technological advancements that contributed to the distribution of music led to changes in the music industry, ultimately changing how the artist can get their music to the consumer. One of the first affects felt by artists and record labels was the decline of overall album sales. Consumers were now capable of picking and choosing specific songs they wanted to purchase and listen too. The initial stage (from about 1998 to 2001) of the digital music revolution was the new…

Marketers play an important role when it comes to when fans/consumers have the ability to create, communicate, and publish. Part of that role stems from catering to this new generation of consumers while the other part of that role includes quality control and target marketing. The main job of marketers is to appeal to the fans/consumers, and when they have the ability to create, communicate and publish, marketers must create and advertise product that will allow the consumers to do so. This…

In this letter to Emily White, the author David Lowery tries to connect with people and convey what they are doing wrong. The author does this by using logical examples, his credibility and by appealing to people’s emotions. The purpose of this text is to persuade Emily White and her generation to realize how not paying for their music affects artists and the music industry. The author relies on his credibility in many parts of the letters. He starts out by establishing his good will and…

Case Study I-4 Supporting mobile Health Clinics: The Children’s Health Fund of New York City “Children’s Health Fund is committed to providing health care to the children who need it most” (Children’s Health Fund, 2013, p. 1). The mobile clinics main objective is to provide medical, mental, and oral health services to children in communities where these services are needed who cannot afford medical treatments. Another attribute of the mobile clinic is the preventative services and health care…

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…

what a gentleman in the documentary said, which was somewhere along the lines of how the artists and record labels should have adapted and adjusted to the new technology instead of fighting it. I strongly agree with that statement mainly because of the fact that after Napster was created, there was no stopping this new way to share and download free music. I look at it like this, artists and record companies could sit around and mope and spend millions of dollars on attempting to stop this or…