Today we were looking at The Music Industry and exploring record labels and financial structures. A really good site for summarising how the industry works is Bemuso - mainly aimed at people who want to actually make a start on selling their own music, it provides useful guides to the financial aspects of the industry and it's where I got the useful chart above.
Over the coming weeks we will be looking in detail at various music industry practices and issues, including filesharing and music piracy (I will be including quite a few links to old blog posts over on my personal Tumblr!).
The overall aim will be to produce an in-depth case study of one major and one independent label to use as part of the AS Institutions Case Study.
And there will be lots more like this:
