Music Industry

The Music Industry consists of a number of Record Labels who own copyright of the band music and helps to promote and distribute albums for the band members. Things a Record Label will look out for are usually genre's of music, depending on record sales, or how successful the musician is.

The graph shows the major countries that produce music and make the largest profit. The United States,Japan and the UK being the greatest.

The most popular Record Labels based on sales statistics can be viewed below:







Whilst the most profiting record label's are independent this doesn't necessarily count as there are many in the percentage. As follows the most profiting are:

. Universal Music Group
. Sony
. EMI Group
. Warner Music Group

These companies are also orientated with other media like films and video games (E.g Warner Brothers is a film company, and Sony tends to make playstations and other gadgets.)
                                                                                                                      
Examples for independent labels could be Immortal Records. The (now defunct) label that helped to promote now rather famous bands like 30 Seconds to Mars and Korn.