Record Labels

a) What does a record label do?
- A record label enables artists to treat music making as a full-time career. They exploit the artists' recordings commercially and collect and pay the resulting royalties on their behalf.

b) Give four examples of services a record label might provide for an artist
- Pay for the recording and mixing of albums
- Manufacture and Distribute the recordings (to retailers)
- Promote and artists and their music
- Enforce the copyright laws

c) Why might an artist want to be signed to a record label?
- A record label can help to promote you as a new artist so that the public can recognize your music and you as an artist. They can also help to provide the financial support system which allows them to pursue music full-time.

d) Give four examples of ways in which record labels make money (Revenue Streams)?
- Selling albums/singles of the artist
- Money from tour tickets
- Royalties
- Investment

e) Name the 'big four' record labels (majors) and name two well-known artists who are signed to each one.
- EMI:
  - Kylie Minogue
  - Dizzee Rascal

- Sony BMG:
  - Beyonce
  - Justin Timberlake

- Universal Music Group:
  - Justin Bieber
  - Black Eyed Peas

- Warner Music Group:
  - Michael Buble
  - Madonna