Music Industry Organizations Overview
Discover the crucial roles of production and promotion teams in the music industry, including recording companies, music publishing companies, promoters, broadcasting companies, marketing, and distribution companies. Learn how these entities support musicians in creating, promoting, and distributing their music to audiences worldwide.
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Unit 1: The Music Industry (External Exam) Learning Aim A: Understand different types of organisations that make up the music industry Lesson 3: Production & Promotion (5thOctober 2016)
Production and Promotion No musician can survive without the support of others. The production and promotion teams are crucial to a successful career in the music industry. Production teams help the musician make and record their music to a high standard. Promotion teams help the musician advertise their music so that people buy it.
Recording companies: These can be big or major companies or smaller independent companies. These production companies are sometimes called Record labels and they sign up and artist to help them: Write or improve songs/pieces, Choose suitable pieces, Record their music in a professional studio
Music Publishing companies: These can be big companies who make thousands of copies of CDs, DVDs etc. and have factories all over the globe. They charge huge amounts of money for this usually paid for by the Recording company/record label. OR A musician can go down the self-publishing route where they pay to have the CD/DVD made themselves in smaller companies (only making a few copies of a CD/DVD) or even making them in their own home/school.
Promoters: These companies can be big or small and they arrange events for musicians to showcase their music, for example: Concerts Clubs Festivals
Broadcasting companies: These companies can be big or small and they are like promoters, arranging events for musicians to showcase their music, but usually on a bigger scale reaching a bigger audience. Examples of broadcasting companies include: TV companies Radio stations Internet sites
Marketing and Distribution companies: Marketing companies advertise your music in any way they can. This could include: Posters TV/Radio/Internet adverts Websites/Social media Stunts eg. a flash-mob Face-to-face chatting to public Distribution companies deliver the music product to the customer. They are usually big companies and have to persuade shops to stock their product and then transport it to the shops. This could be: High street stores/supermarkets Online shops (eg, CDs from Amazon or downloads from iTunes) Social media
Task: Design a flow chart to show how a piece of music (CD/Album) is created and made available to purchase by consumers.
Production company or Record label Performer Promoters and Broadcasting companies Distribution companies Successful Artist Marketing companies
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