Research.

The music industry sells compostitions, recordings and performances of music. The music industry is made up of several components ranging from the managers right through to the general public. All these factors must all work together for each and every one of them to remain successful. For example, if shops were failing to sell CD's this would cause a negative effect across all the area's of everyone in the music industry involved in the production of the CD. Not only would it be retail losing out on the money, but every one in the industry as well would also suffer from the effects.



Within the music industry, record labels are used. A record label is a trademark associated with the marketing of recordings and videos within music. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages the trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion, and the enforcement of copy right protection of recordings and videos; conducts talent scouting and development of new artists and maintains contracts with recording artists and their managers.

A record Label I Researched:
Virgin Records UK:
Virgin Records was started by Richard Branson in the early 1970's as an independent label based in London, UK. Today Virgin Records is part of EMI, and has offices and subsidiaries in many countries worldwide.
They work with bands/ singers such as:

• BRYAN FERRY
• CAGE THE ELEPHANT
• CORINNE BAILEY RAE
• DEADMAU5
• DIANE BIRCH
• DOVES
• JAMIE T
• KT TUNSTALL
• LAURA MARLING
• MASSIVE ATTACK
• PETER GABRIEL
• PROFESSOR GREEN
• ROBBIE WILLIAMS
• ROLL DEEP
• SETH LAKEMAN
• THE KOOKS
• THE MISSION DISTRICT
• WE THE KINGS
• YOU ME AT SIX

virgin records uk are part of the major record label "EMI Music".

EMI traces its history back to the very begginings of recorded sound and music as one of our original companies was founded by the inventor of the gramophone, Emile Berliner.Since then EMI has always been at the forefront of technology and change. EMI scientists invented stereo recording and were closely involved in the development of magnetic tape. They were also behind the birth of electrical television and radar. Given our heritage of innovation, when digital music began to take off in the 1990s, EMI was well placed to respond to the new trends. EMI Music's first websites went live in 1993 and 1994 and in 1998 EMI streamed the first complete album over the internet, Mezzanine by Massive Attack. The following year EMI was the first company to release a digital album download, David Bowie's …Hours. EMI also launched the first internet video single in 2001. In 2007 EMI became the first major music company to make its music available without digital rights management (DRM) software.Today EMI Music has agreements with hundreds of digital partners to distribute our music across the globe, covering a huge variety of digital music business models and ideas.

EMI is the only privately owned major music company, since 2007.