start from how much of it was your own promotion and how did your record label help? Gigging. We spent years just touring and gigging and built up a real strong loyal live following. The more people you get coming to your shows the more people that will go out and buy your singles and buy your albums. How did the record label help with that? Or was it really just built off your own back? Its always good to have major label backing‚ due to the contacts they have got‚ they have whole teams
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internal‚ the micro and macro environmental situation‚ composed of the typical five Cs: customers‚ Company‚ collaborators‚ competition‚ context. There are three potential target customer segments that have several unique aspects. Firstly‚ the record labels‚ that employ artist-and-repertoire (A&R) people‚ that amongst other activities‚ decides whether to market a new album and if needed select one or more songs from it to be released as singles. This is by far the smallest segment with just over a
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band has some basic ideas that would like to include in the music video. This music video is going to be placed on You-tube as well as the bands website and will be included as an additional feature to the CD package which will be distributed by a record label in Australia. As there will be a profit taken from the distribution of the music video there are many legalities including contracts‚ legal forms and possible lawsuits. The first issue that will arise for the independent film maker is copyright
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Payola Scandal Rocks ’50’s Radio Researched & Written by Bob Neira What is payola ? In the American music industry‚ it is the illegal practice of payment or other inducement by record companies for the broadcast of recordings on music radio‚ in which the song is presented as being part of the normal day’s broadcast. A radio station can play a specific song in exchange for money‚ but this must be disclosed on the air as being sponsored airtime‚ and that playing of the song should not be counted
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The Impact of Music Piracy According to the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) the record industry loses $4.3 billion dollars‚ worldwide‚ due to music piracy (RIAA‚ 2003). The American Federation of Artists claims that on-line music piracy has caused some record store sales to drop by 20% and that 20.6 billion illegal downloads occur every month (AFM‚ 2004). Many experts believe that music piracy is currently the number one threat to the music industry. RIAA sources claim 278 million people
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2.5 billion sales in 2000 to 1.8 billion sales in 2006‚ this has cost the record industry billions. Although this does not sound good‚ this information can be taken two ways: first‚ P2P programs should be done away with completely because they are harming the traditional way the music industry distributes music. Another way to look at this information is that technology is changing and in order to keep up‚ both record labels and artists need to embrace advances in technology to make changes to create
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Effects of Illegal Downloading on the Music Industry Illegal downloading is commonly known as piracy‚ it describe that the steeling music from artists‚ songwriters‚ musicians‚ record label employees and others whose hard work and great talent who make music possible. Nowadays‚ downloading music is available for everyone on internet. However‚ it is still illegal. Downloading music on internet is what most people are doing because they do not have to pay‚ and they can choose only the songs they
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References: Germany launches biggest legal action against illegal file-sharing‚ 2006 viewed 3 April 2007 Hervey‚ S 2002‚ Future of Online Music: Labels and Artists‚ viewed 1 April 2007‚ http://www.weintraub.com/FutureofOnlineMusic.pdf Krueger‚ C. Swatman‚ P. Van der Beek‚ K. (2004) E-Business Models in the Online music Legit music downloads taking off‚ say Industry‚ ABC News Online‚ 2006 >http://www
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making the Internet not only a promotional vehicle for artists‚ but also a necessity for profit. These new means of music distributing and marketing have not only pushed the music industry to new levels‚ but has created a whirlwind of changes as record labels are losing control‚ with artists and consumers having the upper hand. I. Introduction The inspirational Bob Marley once said‚ “One good thing about music‚ is that when it hits you‚ you feel no pain.” But in our current state of being in a
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recording and selling music through physical or digital means‚ including live performance. The product offered by the music industry are varied over years‚ from the very first beginning of tape cassettes‚ and then to CDs‚ till now‚ digital music records have become more popular comparing to others. Although the mainstream of production in music industry changes a lot‚ live performance of music is still an important part of industry as it allows performers to establish new fans and give old fans a
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