Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Institutions in the Music Industry:

Universal Music Group:














Universal Music Group is the largest company in the music industry. The company is based in the USA and is wholly owned subsidiary of French media conglomerate Vivendi.


Labels & Artists:
Mercury Records (Pixie Lott, Lu Lu, The Eagles, Paul McCartney)
Def Jam (Rihanna, Ne-Yo)
Island Records (Charlie Simpson, Mumford & Sons, Bon Jovi, Justin Beiber)
Motown Records (Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, The Supremes)

Sony Music:










Sony Music is the second largest company in the Music industry and is controlled by the Sony Corporation of America, the United States   subsidiary of Japans Corporation.
Labels:
 
Columbia Records (AC/DC, Adele in America, Aerosmith, Beyoncé)

Epic Records (Alexandra Burke, Ciara, JLS, Glee Cast)
Warner Music Group:













Warnmer Music group is the third largest buisness company in the music industry, in control of a variety of record labels. For three decades teh conglomerate was known as WEA which stood for Warner Bros.-Elektra-Atlantic. These were the three major record labels that signed up and coming artists.
Labels:
Atlantic Records (Toni Braxton, Craig David, Ed Sheeran)
Elektra Records (AC/DC, Bruno Mars)
Warner Bros Records (Lilly Allen, Cher, Charice)

Independant Records:
An independant record label is a record label operating without funding of or outside the organisations of the major record record labels such as the ones i have spoke about above.

Summary:
Overall after looking into a range of different record companies and the type of artists/genres they support i have come to the conclusion that Universal Music Group would be the most suitable to promote the genre of music that my music video includes. The fact Universal is the largest record company means that they have got a broad range of genres and do not specialize in one particular area, this is a benefit because the people that work for them will have a diverse range of influences.
Universal seems to have signed some of the most world renowned artists and therefore i believe they will be able to understand the style of music that my music video consists of.

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