- Its un conventional to have a song without a video
- Video killer the radio star was one of the first songs to have a music video, it was less about the music and more about the visual image (music video)
- Nowadays, it’s extremely hard to make it big without a record label; you have to be represented by a record label because they have the money, contacts and knowledge.
- A record label will promote you, book interviews for you, design music covers for you, book tours/concerts for you
- The record label decides how the band is and what they release.
- The record company tailor the bands to how they think they should be
- 90% of music companies don’t make a profit, this is when the bands get dropped
- Zutons have been dropped.
- Alphabeat have been dropped.
- Record companies will take 10% of the band’s profits
- Some bands argue that its more about the image and less about the music. For example: Prince quit his record label, Warner’s record label, because of how they wanted him to be
- Some bands are now referred to as indies. This is an independent band, where they do all the leg work themselves
- They usually get the cooler underground sounds as they don’t have a record label controlling what they do
- Independent bands are more daring to change their style of music
- They are smaller and not very well known bands
- Bands are interested in trying to get a no.1 single
- The charts primarily reflect the distribution and promotion by their record labels, this results in an unfair Music Chart
- The more independent bands, promote their albums and not singles because album sales bring in more money than single sales
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