The music Industry background information. 

The Music industry   consists of the companies and individuals that make money by creating and selling music. Among the many individuals and organizations that operate within the industry are: the musicians who compose and perform the music; the companies and professionals who create and sell recorded music. 

current model of what the music industry is like in the modern era

in the early 20th century recording music sound was considered 'disruptive' to the traditional way of recording music by song sheets, this took sometime for people to adapt to. eventually the song sheet writer were overtaken and replaced by record labels such as Colombia record or Sony BMG. after this the big 6 came about, these groups began to dominate the music industry and the profit it made.

 

a representation of the big six companies that took control over the music industry, over time they began to reduce as companies such as Sony and Warner music. eventually, Sony and BMG became Sony BMG. independent record labels also began to rise as artist decided to distance themselves from the larger music group.

within the music industry you also have independent music artist and their companies, what is meant by independent music labels are labels that are not part of the bigger music foundations such as Sony and Warner, the reasons why we have independent record labels is because a lot of artist find that some of their deals don't give them a fair cut of the money that they earn from making music because of this artist such as Macklemore come about. Independent artist do find it harder because they are not supported by they don't always have the money to mass produce CD's or always have a studio to record, plus they are also need to get their music to stores that want to sell their music. with bigger labels they already have companies that produce CD's for they and have deals with stores to sell their products.