Music Scene The Music Industry Matt Anniss A Smart Apple Media
CHAPTER ONE ORIGINS OF THE MODERN MUSIC INDUSTRY The music industry is a vast global machine It offers opportunities for those with musical marketing or technical talents to follow their dreams For every famous singer rapper DJ or band there are hundreds of people working behind the scenes to make the dream come true Money from Music The music industry is a term used to describe the many companies and individuals who in some way make a living from music That includes performers music producers concert promoters record labels and music distributors the people who get music to shops and download stores Also involved are instrument manufacturers sound technicians and marketing companies who work hard to promote musicians and music releases Humble Origins People have written and played music for thousands of years It's only in the last 200 years that people have been able to make a living from music Even then only top musicians and concert hall owners were able to get rich What we call the music industry really began with the development of equipment that could record sound The first device was a phonograph invented by Thomas Edison in 1877 The machine used strange looking wax cylinders to record and replay music Today's DJs wouldn't exist without the development in the 1870s of equipment for recording and replaying music
Disc Doctor The development of records pressed plasticor vinyl discs allowed people to listen to recorded music at home on a device called a phonograph Records quickly became popular among wealthy people in the early part of the 20th century This created work for musicians singers and popular entertainers of the time They recorded their performances onto records so they could be sold to the public by record labels Boom Time Records really began to take off in the 1950s when the equipment to listen to them known as record players became cheaper Teenagers quickly became more interested in pop music and record sales soared In the 21st century top singers such as Beyoncé can earn millions of dollars every year Global Industry Today the worldwide music industry is huge According to the international music industry body the IFPI global music sales topped 15 8 billion in 2009 That's an enormous amount of money and it doesn't include sales of concert tickets or royalties payments given to songwriters and performers when their songs are played on the radio or television Music is big business and if you are very successful in the music industry you can become very rich indeed Inside Story This book will give you a glimpse into the inner workings of the music industry explaining who does what and why We'll also show you how bands go from garage enthusiasts to global stars and how television and the Internet changed the music industry forever
