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Ever since I was little, I would sing and look up music. I would rush home every day after school so that I could practice. My entire life I would strive to become more musically talented. Now that I am older, because of technology, I am interested in Social Media, and how music these days is related to music. Music is my passion. Any chance that I get to learn more about music, I often take. The topic that I have chosen to write about is, how the music industry is affected by the internet and…

recording business basically, records began to be sold all around and a competition grew. The competition was the type of records to be sold. The size of records, the hole in the middle, how many times and how fast it spun, and how many songs were on each record was determined through different companies. This competition made it hard for people who wanted to buy multiple records though. Some disks were the perfect size for jukeboxes, while others were good only for record players. Soon this…

Performing Rights Organizations/Publishers who receive 0.026 cents while the owner of the sound recording (usually the record label) receives 0.12 cents. For the Spotify ‘Subscription’ based model, total revenue associated per stream is 1.0 cents. Spotify then takes a 0.3 cent cut from this amount. The Performing Rights Organization/Publisher receives 0.11 cents of this amount while the Record Label (owner of the sound recording) receives 0.59 cents. As stated on the Royalty Exchange Website,…

Musicians Vs. Synthesizers: The Musical Theatre Debate There has been an ongoing debate over the issue of new technological innovations overtaking many art forms to make them obsolete when the art still has worth in modern society. Music has not been immune this confrontation. An issue that many producers have faced resulted from the introduction of synthesizers into music production and playback. This new innovation has many positive, as well as negative, aspects brings to the music industry.…

“Morning Morgantown” by Joni MItchells Lyrics that explain how a teen views the day? What more could someone want?! Joni Mitchell’s song, “Morning Morgantown” goes further with not only insight on a teenager’s point of view, but also proficiently made a song with a sweet melody and harmony, and musings of Joni’s own days as a teenager. I chose to use “Morning Morgantown” because I appreciate the artist Joni Mitchell, and think that this song is still relatable. Joni Mitchell has never…

available in one click of a button. Vinyl’s contain a sound that is outstanding and nothing compared to audio encryption. The music and sounds are physically being formed into records. Each one being different shape, size, roughness, and smoothness. Also its cool looking and the new generation see it as a big cd. The Vinyl Record Club is a place where anyone can meet people who have a different or the same taste in music. The information is assessable easy when asked and to get involved in…

The process of refining and marketing the phonograph and the development of the audio spotlight are similar in many ways. They both started a new method of communication and entertainment, at first the phonograph was not very durable and only played sounds for a short amount of time, later on competitors started making their own version of the invention, the same happened to the audio spotlight. This is just one example of how the two inventions are similar, now come more examples of how they…

Tracking/recording: The Tracking/Recording Stage is the stage where you record all the bits that you would need to complet your advert. You record a sound or performance The role of a Audio Engineer in the Tracking/Recording Stage is to make sure that the quality of the recording is good.The Audio Engineer must come in half an hour to a hour before the voice artist arives to setup the mics and pop fliter and to make sure that you are ready to record as soon as the voice artist arives.As a Audio…

come full circle your membership, your music vanishes. These musical creations are put away in an exclusive organization, so there is no easy approach to copy them to different contraptions. Still the music business is suing XM radio since it has a record…

The first company I looked into in depth was iTunes and its corresponding Apple Music. Through iTunes, artists receive less than 10% of the price of the sale of their song. For a $9.99 download, the artist receives 94 CENTS, the record company receives $5.35, and iTunes receives $3.70. For every song downloaded, the artist gets NINE CENTS. They put in so much work only to earn nine cents. As the average minimum wage in the United States is currently $1,071.20 a month, the average artist needs to…