5 Questions

What does a record lable do?

• Record compaines are the main investors in, developers of, musical talent in the UK and globally. Record labels enable artists, through advances and marketing/sales support, to treat music making as a full-time career. They reveal the artists' records commercially. Labels pay for the recording and mixing of albums and they often underwrite new acts' touring costs to help raise their profile and sales. Record lables also provide an essential promotional and marketing role, developing and executing ad and marketing campaigns.

This is why artists would want to be signed.
 Give 4 examples of services a record lable might provide for an artist.
- Exploit artists' recordings commercially and collect and pay the resulting royalties on their behalf.
- Pay for the recording and mixing of their albums.
- Provide an essential promotional and marketing role
- Lables can also seek other ways for the recordings to be exploited such as being used in movies and adverts and license rights to global parties in diferent markets.

Give 4 examples of ways in which record labels make money?

• Promotion and marketing.
• They often underwrite new acts' touring cost to help raise their profile and sales.

Name the'big four' record labels and name two well-known artists who are signed to each one

• Song/BMG -
• Universal -
• EMI -
• Warner -