Production

The major music products of the industry are the musical recordings made by the bands and artists which account for 70% of the revenue and the publication of the lyrics and the musical scores account for 20%. The other services which account for the revenue include the production of master recordings, the manufacturing and the packaging of CD's and production of a database to distribute recordings.

Major Music Studios
The major music studios have musical artists. bands and rappers under a contract to produce so many albums and also produce recordings which are marketed as stand alones or mixed with other recordings to make one compilation album and albums by the artist.

Smaller Music Studios
Smaller Music Studios may only produce sound recordings or promote and distribute these recordings.Small integrated studios focus on finding the undiscovered talents which are around today.

Brief history
The electro-magnetic tape was introduced and also the more economical and flexible tape recorder superseded recording onto wax master discs which opened up the way to poplar music was being produced and recorded postwar, 2,4,16,24,32 and eventually 48 multi track recordings between the years 1950 and 1970 which allowed the musicians to layer their music with different types of instruments, vocals and sampled sounds.

6 key technological developments which have transformed the production of popular music.

1) Digital Synthesizer
Allows sounds to be recorded and then stored in a random access memory, the sounds can then be modified and manipulated and retrieved for mixing.

2) Digital Sampler
Replicates the exact sounds made by the musician whether this is in the form of an instrument like a guitar, trumpet or saxophone, which means the musician is not needed for the process of recording since the sampler can produce the sounds on demand.

3) Drum Machine
Lets the programming of the beats and the removal of mistakes which has been made.

4) Digital Process of Comping
Lets the best parts from several takes of a performance to be seamlessly edited together for the final perfect version.

5) Digital Computer Sequencers
Let short musical events to be programmed and then extended into longer sequencers increasing the complexity or intensity of the available or achievable tempos and rhythms of tracks.

6) MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
Lets a range of instrument be digitally connected together which allows a composition to take place within a computer memory without the need for these instruments and musicians to be playing together or seperately in a live studio space. This means studio quality recording no longer actually needs to be produced int he studio.

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RCA Records

RCA Records is a subsidiary company of Sony BMG. Some of the big artists and bands which are under RCA Records Include:

• Christina Aguilera
• Foo Fighters
• Avril Lavigne
• Kings of Leon
• Kelly Clarkson

RCA Records was originally called The Victor Talking Machine Company. The Victor Talking Machine Company was back then the world's biggest manufacturers of phonographs including the famous phonograph Victrola and phonograph records which is in the British English the gramophone records. The company was soon after renamed to RCA Victor. RCA Victor needed New World rights to the famous trademark called Nipper. In Shanghai China, RCA Victor was the lead competitor to Baak Doi. The initials of RCA Records stands for Radio Corporation of America, which was then later renamed RCA Corporation which was the parent corporation from 1928 to 1983 and a partner from 1983 to 1986.

RCA is the name of three different co-owned record labels. RCA Records is the pop and rock music and the country music label. RCA Victor is the blues music, world music, jazz musicals and other musical genres which do not fit into the music genre of pop. RCA Red Seal is a well known classical music label with the re-issue of the sub-label called RCA Gold Seal.

RCA also has defunct labels, they are RCA Camden, RCA Victrola and RCA Custom, famed for the issuing of record compilations for the Reader's Digest Association as well as pressing records for other record companies.

Sony BMG

Sony BMG has its headquarters in: New York

Sony BMG has 20 subsidiary companies: Arista Nashville, Arista Records, Bluebird Jazz, Burgundy Records, BNA Records Label, Columbia Nashville, Columbia Records, Epic Records, J Records, Jive Records, La Face Records, Legacy Records, Provident Label Group, RCA Records, RCA Records Label Nashville, RCA Victor, Masterworks, US Latin, Verity Records and Windham Hill.

Sony BMG have 45 offices in 45 different countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chilie, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zeland, Norway, The Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, UK,US, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Management
Rolf Schmidt Holtz- Chief Executive Officer Sony Music

Kelvin Keller- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Corporation

Sony Corporation is part of the whole Sony Table. Sony Corporation consists of Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Financial Holdings, Sony Pictures and Sony Entertainment.
Its a Japanese Company which was founded in 1946. Sony Corporation Employment totals at 158,000.

Today, it is one of the world's biggest electronic goods company manufacturers of electronics, video games, video and communication devices such as the mobile. In March 2006 figures showed that Sony Corporation had a turnover of $68.39 billion. It has always been consistent with the technological and electronic side. The innovations of Sony Corporation include the Sony Walkman, The Mobile and the PS3

Music Industry Research

Jobs in the Music Industry
1) Musicians who compose and perform the music.

2) Companies and the professionals who create and sell recorded music-music publishes, producers, studios, studio engineers, record labels, retail and online music stores such as iTunes and performance rights organizations.

3)Those who present the live performances- booking agents, promoters, music venues and road crew.

4) The professionals who help the bands and the artists with the music careers- talent managers, business managers and entertainment lawyers.

5) Those who broadcast music- Radio broadcasters such as on Kerrang! Galaxy and Viking, then on the music channels such as MTV.

6) Then there are the Journalists Educators Musical Instrument Manufacturers and many more.

4 major music labels:
Sony BMG, EMI, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group