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The music industry consists of the companies and individuals that earn money by creating new songs and pieces and selling live concerts and shows, audio and video recordings, compositions and sheet music, and the organizations and associations that aid and represent creators. Among the many individuals and organizations that operate in the industry are: the songwriters and composers who create new songs and musical pieces; the singers, musicians, conductors and bandleaders who perform the music; the companies and professionals who create and sell recorded music and/or sheet music (e.g., music publishers, music producers, recording studios, engineers, record labels, retail and online music stores, performance rights organizations); and those that help organize and present live music performances (sound engineers, booking agents, promoters, music venues, road crew).
The industry also includes a range of professionals who assist singers and musicians with their music careers (talent managers, artists and repertoire managers, business managers, entertainment lawyers); those who broadcast audio or video music content (satellite, Internet radio stations, broadcast radio and TV stations); music journalists and music critics; DJs; music educators and teachers; musical instrument manufacturers; as well as many others. In addition to the businesses and artists who work in the music industry to make a profit or income, there are a range of organizations that also play an important role in the music industry, including musician's unions (e.g., American Federation of Musicians), not-for-profit performance-rights organizations (e.g., American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) and other associations.
The modern Western music industry emerged between the 1930s and 1950s, when records replaced sheet music as the most important product in the music business. In the commercial world, "the recording industry"–a reference to recording performances of songs and pieces and selling the recordings–began to be used as a loose synonym for "the music industry". In the 2000s, a majority of the music market is controlled by three major corporate labels: the French-owned Universal Music Group, the Japanese-owned Sony Music Entertainment,[1] and the US-owned Warner Music Group. Labels outside of these three major labels are referred to as independent labels (or "indies"). The largest portion of the live music market for concerts and tours is controlled by Live Nation, the largest promoter and music venue owner. Live Nation is a former subsidiary of iHeartMedia Inc, which is the largest owner of radio stations in the United States. Creative Artists Agency is a large talent management and booking company which represents singers and bands.
In the first decades of the 2000s, the music industry underwent drastic changes with the advent of widespread digital distribution of music via the Internet (which includes both illegal file sharing of songs and legal music purchases in online music stores). A conspicuous indicator of these changes is total music sales: since 2000, sales of recorded music have dropped off substantially[2][3] while live music has increased in importance.[4] In 2011, the largest recorded music retailer in the world was now a digital, Internet-based platform operated by a computer company: Apple Inc.'s online iTunes Store.[5]
Contents
History[edit]
Early history[edit]
Printed music in Europe:
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Music publishing using machine-printed sheet music developed during the Renaissance music era in the mid-15th century. The development of music publication followed the evolution of printing technologies that were first developed for printing regular books. After the mid-15th century, mechanical techniques for printing sheet music were first developed. The earliest example, a set of liturgical chants, dates from about 1465, shortly after the Gutenberg Bible was printed. Prior to this time, music had to be copied out by hand. To copy music notation by hand was a very costly, labor-intensive and time-consuming process, so it was usually undertaken only by monks and priests seeking to preserve sacred music for the church. The few collections of secular (non-religious) music that are extant were commissioned and owned by wealthy aristocrats. Examples include the Squarcialupi Codex of Italian Trecento music and the Chantilly Codex of French Ars subtilior music.
The use of printing enabled sheet music to reproduced much more quickly and at a much lower cost than hand-copying music notation. This helped musical styles to spread to other cities and countries more quickly, and it also enabled music to be spread to more distant areas. Prior to the invention of music printing, a composer's music might only be known in the city she lived in and its surrounding towns, because only wealthy aristocrats would be able to afford to have hand copies made of her music. With music printing, though, a composer's music could be printed and sold at a relatively low cost to purchasers from a wide geographic area. As sheet music of major composer's pieces and songs began to be printed and distributed in a wider area, this enabled composers and listeners to hear new styles and forms of music. A German composer could buy songs written by an Italian or English composer, and an Italian composer could buy pieces written by Dutch composers and learn how they wrote music. This led to more blending of musical styles from different countries and regions.
The pioneer of modern music printing was Ottaviano Petrucci (born in Fossombrone in 1466 – died in 1539 in Venice ), a printer and publisher who was able to secure a twenty-year monopoly on printed music in Venice during the 16th century. Venice was one of the major business and music centers during this period. His Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, a collection of chansons printed in 1501, is commonly misidentified as the first book of sheet music printed from movable type. Actually that distinction belongs to the Roman printer Ulrich Han's Missale Romanum of 1476. Nevertheless, Petrucci's later work was extraordinary for the complexity of his white mensural notation and the smallness of his font. He printed the first book of polyphony (music with two or more independent melodic lines) using movable type. He also published numerous works by the most highly regarded composers of the Renaissance, including Josquin des Prez and Antoine Brumel. He flourished by focusing on Flemish works, rather than Italian, as they were very popular throughout Europe during the Renaissance music era. His printing shop used the triple-impression method, in which a sheet of paper was pressed three times. The first impression was the staff lines, the second the words, and the third the notes. This method produced very clean and readable results, although it was time-consuming and expensive.
Until the 18th century, the processes of formal composition and of the printing of music took place for the most part with the support of patronage from aristocracies and churches. In the mid-to-late 18th century, performers and composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began to seek more commercial opportunities to market their music and performances to the general public. After Mozart's death, his wife (Constanze Weber) continued the process of commercialization of his music through an unprecedented series of memorial concerts, selling his manuscripts, and collaborating with her second husband, Georg Nissen, on a biography of Mozart.[6]
In the 19th century, sheet-music publishers dominated the music industry. Prior to the invention of sound recording technologies, the main way to hear new symphonies and opera arias was to buy the sheet music (often arranged for piano or for a small chamber music group) and perform the music in a living room, using friends who were amateur musicians and singers. In the United States, the music industry arose in tandem with the rise of black face minstrelsy. In the late part of the century the group of music publishers and songwriters which dominated popular music in the United States became known as Tin Pan Alley. The name originally referred to a specific place: West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, and a plaque (see below) on the sidewalk on 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth commemorates it. The start of Tin Pan Alley is usually dated to about 1885, when a number of music publishers set up shop in the same district of Manhattan. The end of Tin Pan Alley is less clear cut. Some date it to the start of the Great Depression in the 1930s when the phonograph and radio supplanted sheet music as the driving force of American popular music, while others consider Tin Pan Alley to have continued into the 1950s when earlier styles of American popular music were upstaged by the rise of rock & roll.
Advent of recorded music[edit]
At the dawn of the early 20th century, the recording of sound began to function as a disruptive technology to the commercial interests publishing sheet music. During the sheet music era, if you wanted to hear popular new songs, you would buy the sheet music and play it at home on a piano, or learn the song at home while playing the accompaniment. Commercially released phonograph records of musical performances starting in the late 1880s, and later the onset of widespread radio broadcasting starting in the 1920s, forever changed the way music was heard. Opera houses, concert halls, and clubs continued to produce music and perform live, but the power of radio allowed obscure bands, ensembles and singers to become popular on a nationwide and sometimes worldwide scale. Moreover, whereas attendance at the top symphony and opera concerts was restricted to high-income people in a pre-radio world, with broadcast radio, a much larger proportion of people could hear the best orchestra and opera shows.
The "record industry" eventually replaced the sheet music publishers as the industry's largest force. A multitude of record labels came and went. Some note-worthy labels of the earlier decades include the Columbia Records, Crystalate, Decca Records, Edison Bell, The Gramophone Company, Invicta, Kalliope, Pathé, Victor Talking Machine Company and many others.[7]
Many record companies died out as quickly as they had formed, and by the end of the 1980s, the "Big six" — EMI, CBS, BMG, PolyGram, WEA and MCA — dominated the industry. Sony bought CBS Records in 1987 and changed its name to Sony Music in 1991. In mid-1998, PolyGram Music Group merged with MCA Music Entertainment creating what we now know as Universal Music Group. Since then, Sony and BMG merged in 2004,[8] and Universal took over the majority of EMI's recorded music interests in 2012.[9] EMI Music Publishing, also once part of the now defunct British conglomerate, is now co-owned by Sony as a subsidiary of Sony/ATV Music Publishing.[10]
Genre-wise, music entrepreneurs expanded their industry models into areas like folk music in which composition and performance had continued for centuries on an ad hoc self-supporting basis. Forming an independent record label, or "indie" label, or signing to such a label continues to be a popular choice for up-and-coming musicians, especially in genres like hardcore punk and extreme metal, despite the fact that indies cannot offer the same financial backing of major labels. Some bands prefer to sign with an indie label, because these labels typically give performers more artistic freedom.
Rise of digital and online distribution[edit]
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In the first decade of the 2000s, digitally downloaded and streamed music, much of it illegally downloaded or streamed, at least at first, became more popular than buying physical recordings (e.g. CDs, records and tapes). This gave consumers almost "frictionless" access to a wider variety of music than ever before. At the same time, consumers spent less money on recorded music (both physically and digitally distributed) than they had in the 1990s.[11] Total revenues in the U.S. dropped by half, from a high of $14.6 billion in 1999 to $6.3 billion in 2009, according to Forrester Research.[3] Worldwide revenues for CDs, vinyl, cassettes and digital downloads fell from $36.9 billion in 2000 [12] to $15.9 billion in 2010[13] according to IFPI. The Economist and The New York Times report that the downward trend is expected to continue for the foreseeable future.[14][15] This dramatic decline in revenue has caused large-scale layoffs inside the industry, driven retailers (such as Tower Records) out of business and forced record companies, record producers, studios, recording engineers and musicians to seek new business models.[16]
In response to the rise of widespread illegal file sharing of digital music recordings, the record industry took aggressive legal action. In 2001 it succeeded in shutting down the popular music website Napster, and threatened legal action against thousands of individuals who participated in sharing music song sound files.[16] However, this failed to slow the decline in music recording revenue and proved to be apublic relations disaster for the music industry.[16] Some academic studies have even suggested that downloads did not cause the decline in sales of recordings.[17] The 2008 British Music Rights survey[18] showed that 80% of people in Britain wanted a legal peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing service, however only half of the respondents thought that the music's creators should be paid. The survey was consistent with the results of earlier research conducted in the United States, upon which the Open Music Model was based.[19]
Legal digital downloads became widely available with the debut of the Apple iTunes Store in 2003. The popularity of internet music distribution has increased and by 2012 digital music sales topped physical sales of music.[20] Atlantic Records reports that digital sales have surpassed physical sales.[14] However, as The Economist reports, "paid digital downloads grew rapidly, but did not begin to make up for the loss of revenue from CDs."[15]
After 2010, Internet-based services such as Deezer, Pandora, Spotify, and Apple’s iTunes Radio began to offer subscription-based “pay to stream” services over the Internet. With streaming services, the user pays a subscription to a company for the right to listen to songs and other media from a library. Whereas with legal digital download services, the purchaser owns a digital copy of the song (which she can keep on her computer or digital media player), with streaming services, the user never downloads the song file or owns the song file. The subscriber can only listen to the song for as long as she continues to pay the streaming subscription. Once the user stops paying the subscription, she cannot listen to the company's songs anymore. Streaming services began to have a serious impact on the industry in 2014.
Spotify, together with the music streaming industry in general, faces some criticism from artists claiming they are not being fairly compensated for their work as downloaded music sales decline and music streaming increases. Unlike physical or download sales, which pay a fixed price per song or album, Spotify pays artists based on their "market share" (the number of streams for their songs as a proportion of total songs streamed on the service). They distribute approximately 70% to rights-holders, who will then pay artists based on their individual agreements. The variable, and some say inadequate, nature of this compensation,[21] has led to criticism. Spotify reports paying on average US$0.006 to US$0.008 per stream. In response, Spotify claims that they are benefiting the music business by migrating "them away from piracy and less monetised platforms and allowing them to generate far greater royalties than before" by encouraging users to use their paid service.[22][23]
The turmoil in the recorded music industry in the 2000s altered the twentieth-century balance between artists, record companies, promoters, retail music-stores and the consumer. As of 2010, big-box stores such as Wal-Mart and Best Buy sell more records than music-only CD stores, which have ceased to function as a major player in the industry. Recording artists now rely on live performance and merchandise sales (T-shirts, sweatshirts, etc.) for the majority of their income, which in turn has made them more dependent on music promoters like Live Nation (which dominates tour promotion and owns a large number of music venues).[4] In order to benefit from all of an artist's income streams, record companies increasingly rely on the "360 deal", a new business-relationship pioneered by Robbie Williams and EMI in 2007.[24] At the other extreme, record companies can offer a simple manufacturing and distribution deal, which gives a higher percentage to the artist, but does not cover the expenses of marketing and promotion.
Companies like Kickstarter help independent musicians produce their albums through fans funding bands they want to listen to.[25] Many newer artists no longer see a record deal as an integral part of their business plan at all. Inexpensive recording hardware and software made it possible to record reasonable quality music on a laptop in a bedroom and distribute it over the Internet to a worldwide audience.[26] This, in turn, caused problems for recording studios, record producers and audio engineers: the Los Angeles Times reports that as many as half of the recording facilities in that city have failed.[27] Changes in the music industry have given consumers access to a wider variety of music than ever before, at a price that gradually approaches zero.[16] However, consumer spending on music-related software and hardware increased dramatically over the last decade, providing a valuable new income-stream for technology companies such as Apple Inc. and Pandora Radio.
Business structure[edit]
The music industry is a complex system of many different organizations, firms and individuals. It has undergone dramatic changes in the first decades of the 21st century. However, the majority of the participants in the music industry still fulfill their traditional roles, which are described below.[28]
There are three types of property that are created and sold by the recording industry: compositions (songs, pieces, lyrics), recordings (audio and video) and media (such as CDs or MP3s and music videos). There may be many recordings of a single composition and a single recording will typically be distributed via many media. For example, the song "My Way" is owned by its composers, Paul Anka and Claude François, Frank Sinatra's recording of "My Way" is owned by Capitol Records, Sid Vicious's recording of "My Way" is owned by Virgin Records, and the millions of CDs and vinyl records that contain these recordings are owned by millions of individual consumers.
Compositions[edit]
Songs, instrumental pieces and other musical compositions are created by songwriters or composers and are originally owned by the composer, although they may be sold or the rights may be otherwise assigned. For example, in the case of work for hire, the composition is owned immediately by another party. Traditionally, the copyright owner licenses or "assigns" some of their rights (e.g. distribution and sales) to publishing companies, by means of a publishing contract. The publishing company (or a collection society operating on behalf of many such publishers, songwriters and composers) collects fees (known as "publishing royalties") when the composition is used. A portion of the royalties are paid by the publishing company to the copyright owner, depending on the terms of the contract. Sheet music provides an income stream that is paid exclusively to the composers and their publishing company. Typically (although not universally), the publishing company will provide the owner with an advance against future earnings when the publishing contract is signed. A publishing company will also promote the compositions, such as by acquiring song "placements" on television or in films.
Recordings[edit]
Recordings are created by recording artists, which includes singers, musicians and musical ensembles (e.g., backing bands, rhythm sections, orchestras, etc.) usually with the assistance and guidance from record producers and audio engineers. They were traditionally made in recording studios (who are paid a daily or hourly rate) in a recording session. In the 21st century, advances in digital recording technology have allowed many producers and artists to create "home studios", bypassing the traditional role of the recording studio. The record producer oversees all aspects of the recording, making many of the logistic, financial and artistic decisions in cooperation with the artists. Audio engineers (including recording, mixing and mastering engineers) are responsible for ensuring good audio quality during the recording. A recording session may also require the services of an arranger, studio musicians, session musicians, vocal coaches, or even ghostwriter to help with the lyrics or songwriting.
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Recordings are (traditionally) owned by record companies. Some artists own their own record companies (e.g., Ani DiFranco). A recording contract specifies the business relationship between a recording artist and the record company. In a traditional contract, the company provides an advance to the artist who agrees to record music that will be owned by the company. The A&R department of a record company is responsible for finding new talent and overseeing the recording process. The company pays for the recording costs and the cost of promoting and marketing the record. For physical media (such as CDs), the company also pays to manufacture and distribute the physical recordings. Smaller record companies (known as "indies") will form business relationships with other companies to handle many of these tasks. The record company pays the recording artist a portion of the income from the sale of the recordings, generally known as a mechanical royalty. (This is distinct from the publishing royalty, described above.) This portion is similar to a percentage, but may be limited or expanded by a number of factors (such as free goods, recoupable expenses, bonuses, etc.) that are specified by the record contract. Session musicians and orchestra members (as well as a few recording artists in special markets) are under contract to provide work for hire; they are typically only paid one-time fees or regular wages for their services, rather than ongoing royalties.
Media[edit]
Physical media (such as CDs or vinyl records) are sold by music retailers and are owned by the consumer after they buy them. They do not typically have the right to make digital copies from it, because they don't own the recording on the CD, they only own the individual physical CD. A music distributor delivers crates of the packaged physical media from the manufacturer to the retailer and maintains relationships with retailers and record companies. The music retailer pays the distributor, who in turn pays the record company for the recordings. The record company pays mechanical royalties to the publisher and composer via a collection society. The record company then pays royalties, if contractually obligated, to the recording artists. In the case of digital downloads or streaming, there is no physical media other than the consumer's devices computer memory. The distributor is optional in this situation; large online shops may pay the labels directly, but digital distributors do exist to service vendors large and small. When purchasing digital downloads or listening to music streaming, the consumer may be required to agree to record company and vendor licensing terms beyond those which are inherent in copyright; for example, some may allow freely sharing the recording, but others may restrict the user to storing the music on a specific number of hard drives or devices.
Broadcast, soundtrack and streaming[edit]
When a recording is broadcast (either on radio or by a background music service such as Muzak), performance rights organisations (such as the ASCAP and BMI in the US, SOCAN in Canada, or MCPS and PRS in the UK), collect a third type of royalty known as a performance royalty, which is paid to songwriters, composers and recording artists. This royalty is typically much smaller than publishing or mechanical royalties. When recordings are used in television and film, the composer and their publishing company are typically paid through a synchronization license. In the 2000s, online subscription services (such as Rhapsody) also provide an income stream directly to record companies, and through them, to artists, contracts permitting.
Live music[edit]
A promoter brings together a performing artist and a venue owner and arranges contracts. A booking agency represents the artist to promoters, makes deals and books performances. Consumers usually buy tickets either from the venue or from a ticket distribution service such as Ticketmaster. In the US, Live Nation is the dominant company in all of these roles: they own most of the large venues in the US, they are the largest promoter, and they own Ticketmaster. Choices about where and when to tour are decided by the artist's management and the artist, sometimes in consultation with the record company. Record companies may finance a tour in the hopes that it will help promote the sale of recordings. However, in the 21st century, it has become more common to release recordings to promote ticket sales for live shows, rather than book tours to promote the sales of recordings.
Major, successful artists will usually employ a road crew: a semi-permanent touring organization that travels with the artist during concert series. The road crew is headed by a tour manager. Crew members provides stage lighting, live sound reinforcement, musical instrument tuning and maintenance, bodyguard for the artist and transportation of the equipment and music ensemble members. On large tours, the road crew may also include an accountant, stage manager, hairdressers, makeup artists and catering staff. Local crews are typically hired to help move equipment on and off stage. On a small tour with less financial backing, all of these jobs may be handled by just a few roadies or by the musicians themselves. Bands signed with small "indie" labels and bands in genres such as hardcore punk are more likely to do tours without a road crew, or with minimal support.
Artist management, representation and staff[edit]
Artists such as singers and musicians may hire a number of people from other fields to assist them with their career. The artist manager oversees all aspects of an artist's career in exchange for a percentage of the artist's income. An entertainment lawyer assists them with the details of their contracts with record companies and other deals. A business manager handles financial transactions, taxes and bookkeeping. Unions, such as AFTRA and the American Federation of Musicians in the U.S. provide health insurance and instrument insurance for musicians. A successful artist functions in the market as a brand and, as such, she may derive income from many other streams, such as merchandise, personal endorsements, appearances (without performing) at events or Internet-based services. These are typically overseen by the artist's manager and take the form of relationships between the artist and companies that specialize in these products. Singers may also hire a vocal coach, dance instructor or acting coach. Performers may also hire a personal trainer or a life coach to help them.
Emerging business models[edit]
In the 2000s, traditional lines that once divided singers, instrumentalists, publishers, record companies, distributors, retail and consumer electronics have become blurred or erased. Artists may record in a home studio or use Kickstarter to raise money for an expensive recording session without involving a record company. Artists may choose to exclusively promote and market themselves using only free services such as YouTube or social media, bypassing traditional promotion and marketing by a record company. Consumer electronics companies such as Apple Computer have become digital music retailers. New digital music distribution technologies and the trends towards using sampling of older songs in new songs or blending different songs to create mashup recordings have also forced both governments and the music industry to re-examine the definitions of intellectual property and the rights of all the parties involved. Also compounding the issue of defining copyright boundaries is the fact that the definition of "royalty" and "copyright" varies from country to country and region to region, which changes the terms of some of these business relationships.
Sales statistics[edit]
Digital album volume sales growth in 2014[edit]
According to IFPI,[29] the global digital album sales grew by 6.9% in 2014.
Country | Percentage |
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US | +2.1% |
UK | -2.8% |
France | -3.4% |
Global (est.) | +6.9% |
Source: Nielsen SoundScan, Official Charts Company/BPI, GfK and IFPI estimate.
Consolidation[edit]
World music market sales shares, according to IFPI (2005)
Prior to December 1998, the industry was dominated by the "Big Six": Sony Music and BMG had not yet merged, and PolyGram had not yet been absorbed into Universal Music Group. After the PolyGram-Universal merger, the 1998 market shares reflected a "Big Five", commanding 77.4% of the market, as follows, according to MEI World Report 2000:
- Universal Music Group — 28.8%
- Independent labels — 22.6%
- Sony Music Entertainment — 21.1%
- EMI — 14.1%
- Warner Music Group — 13.4%
In 2004, the merger of Sony and BMG created the 'Big Four' at a time the global market was estimated at $30–40 billion.[30] Total annual unit sales (CDs, music videos, MP3s) in 2004 were 3 billion. Additionally, according to an IFPI report published in August 2005,[31] the big four accounted for 71.7% of retail music sales:
- Independent labels—28.3%
- Universal Music Group—25.5%
- Sony Music Entertainment—21.5%
- EMI Group—13.4%
- Warner Music Group—11.3%
US music market shares, according to Nielsen SoundScan (2011)
Nielsen SoundScan in their 2011 report noted that the "big four" controlled about 88% of the market:[32]
- Universal Music Group (USA based) — 29.85%
- Sony Music Entertainment (USA based) — 29.29%
- Warner Music Group (USA based) — 19.13%
- Independent labels — 12.11%
- EMI Group - 9.62%
After the absorption of EMI by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group in December 2011 the "big three" were created and on January 8, 2013 after the merger there were layoffs of forty workers from EMI. European regulators forced Universal Music to spin off EMI assets which became the Parlophone Label Group which was acquired by Warner Music Group.[33] Nielsen SoundScan issued a report in 2012, noting that these labels controlled 88.5% of the market, and further noted:[34]
- Universal Music Group (USA based) which owns EMI Music — 32.41% + 6.78% of EMI Group
- Sony Music Entertainment (USA based) which owns publishing arm of EMI Group — 30.25%
- Warner Music Group— 19.15%
- Independent labels— 11.42%
Note: the IFPI and Nielsen Soundscan use different methodologies, which makes their figures difficult to compare casually, and impossible to compare scientifically.[35]
Albums sales and market value[edit]
Total album sales have declined in the early decades of the 21st century, leading some music critics to declare the death of the album. (For instance, the only albums that went platinum in the US in 2014 were the soundtrack to the Disney animated film Frozen and Taylor Swift's 1989, whereas several artists did in 2013.)[36][37] The following table shows album sales and market value in the world in 2014.
Ranking | Market | Retail value US $ (millions) |
% Change | Physical | Digital | Performance rights | Synchronization |
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1 | United States | 4,898.3 | 2.1% | 26% | 71% | 0% | 4% |
2 | Japan | 2,627.9 | −5.5% | 78% | 17% | 3% | 1% |
3 | Germany | 1,404.8 | 1.9% | 70% | 22% | 7% | 1% |
4 | United Kingdom | 1,334.6 | −2.8% | 41% | 45% | 12% | 2% |
5 | France | 842.8 | −3.4% | 57% | 27% | 13% | 3% |
6 | Australia | 376.1 | −6.8% | 32% | 56% | 9% | 2% |
7 | Canada | 342.5 | −11.3% | 38% | 53% | 6% | 2% |
8 | South Korea | 265.8 | 19.2% | 38% | 58% | 3% | 1% |
9 | Brazil | 246.5 | 2.0% | 41% | 37% | 21% | 1% |
10 | Italy | 235.2 | 4.1% | 51% | 33% | 13% | 3% |
11 | Netherlands | 204.8 | 2.1% | 45% | 38% | 16 | 1% |
12 | Sweden | 189.4 | 1.3% | 15% | 73% | 10% | 2% |
13 | Spain | 181.1 | 15.2% | 47% | 35% | 17% | 1% |
14 | Mexico | 130.3 | −1.4% | 41% | 53% | 4% | 2% |
15 | Norway | 119.9 | 0.1% | 14% | 72% | 12% | 2% |
16 | Austria | 114.9 | −2.7% | 65% | 22% | 13% | 1% |
17 | Belgium | 111.2 | −5.8% | 49% | 28% | 22% | 0% |
18 | Switzerland | 108.2 | −8.1% | 52% | 38% | 9% | 0% |
19 | China | 105.2 | 5.6% | 12% | 87% | 0% | 1% |
20 | India | 100.2 | −10.1% | 31% | 58% | 8% | 3% |
Source: IFPI 2014 annual report.[38]
Recorded music retail sales[edit]
2000[edit]
In its June 30, 2000 annual report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Seagram reported that Universal Music Group made 40% of the worldwide classical music sales over the preceding year.[39]
2005[edit]
Interim physical retail sales in 2005. All figures in millions.
Country info | Units | Value | Change (%) | ||||||
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Ranking | Country name | Singles | CD | DVD | Total Units | $ (in USD) | Local Currency | Units | Value |
1 | USA | 14.7 | 300.5 | 11.6 | 326.8 | 4783.2 | 4783.2 | −5.70% | −5.30% |
2 | Japan | 28.5 | 93.7 | 8.5 | 113.5 | 2258.2 | 239759 | −6.90% | −9.20% |
3 | UK | 24.3 | 66.8 | 2.9 | 74.8 | 1248.5 | 666.7 | −1.70% | −4.00% |
4 | Germany | 8.5 | 58.7 | 4.4 | 71 | 887.7 | 689.7 | −7.70% | −5.80% |
5 | France | 11.5 | 47.3 | 4.5 | 56.9 | 861.1 | 669.1 | 7.50% | −2.50% |
6 | Italy | 0.5 | 14.7 | 0.7 | 17 | 278 | 216 | −8.40% | −12.30% |
7 | Canada | 0.1 | 20.8 | 1.5 | 22.3 | 262.9 | 325 | 0.70% | −4.60% |
8 | Australia | 3.6 | 14.5 | 1.5 | 17.2 | 259.6 | 335.9 | −22.90% | −11.80% |
9 | India | – | 10.9 | – | 55.3 | 239.6 | 11500 | −19.20% | −2.40% |
10 | Spain | 1 | 17.5 | 1.1 | 19.1 | 231.6 | 180 | −13.40% | −15.70% |
11 | Netherlands | 1.2 | 8.7 | 1.9 | 11.1 | 190.3 | 147.9 | −31.30% | −19.80% |
12 | Russia | – | 25.5 | 0.1 | 42.7 | 187.9 | 5234.7 | −9.40% | 21.20% |
13 | Mexico | 0.1 | 33.4 | 0.8 | 34.6 | 187.9 | 2082.3 | 44.00% | 21.50% |
14 | Brazil | 0.01 | 17.6 | 2.4 | 24 | 151.7 | 390.3 | −20.40% | −16.50% |
15 | Austria | 0.6 | 4.5 | 0.2 | 5 | 120.5 | 93.6 | −1.50% | −9.60% |
16 | Switzerland ** | 0.8 | 7.1 | 0.2 | 7.8 | 115.8 | 139.2 | n/a | n/a |
17 | Belgium | 1.4 | 6.7 | 0.5 | 7.7 | 115.4 | 89.7 | −13.80% | −8.90% |
18 | Norway | 0.3 | 4.5 | 0.1 | 4.8 | 103.4 | 655.6 | −19.70% | −10.40% |
19 | Sweden | 0.6 | 6.6 | 0.2 | 7.2 | 98.5 | 701.1 | −29.00% | −20.30% |
20 | Denmark | 0.1 | 4 | 0.1 | 4.2 | 73.1 | 423.5 | 3.70% | −4.20% |
Top 20 | 74.5 | 757.1 | 42.8 | 915.2 | 12378.7 | −6.60% | −6.30% |
2003–2007[edit]
Approximately 21% of the gross CD revenue numbers in 2003 can be attributed to used CD sales.[citation needed] This number grew to approximately 27% in 2007.[citation needed] The growth is attributed to increasing on-line sales of used product by outlets such as Amazon.com, the growth of used music media is expected to continue to grow as the cost of digital downloads continues to rise.[citation needed] The sale of used goods financially benefits the vendors and online marketplaces, but in the United States, the first-sale doctrine prevents copyright owners (record labels and publishers, generally) from "double dipping" through a levy on the sale of used music.
2011[edit]
In mid-2011, the RIAA trumpeted a sales increase of 5% over 2010, stating that "there’s probably no one single reason" for the bump.[40]
2012[edit]
The Nielsen Company & Billboard’s 2012 Industry Report shows overall music sales increased 3.1% over 2011. Digital sales caused this increase, with a Digital Album sales growth of 14.1% and Digital Track sales growth of 5.1%, whereas Physical Music sales decreased by 12.8% versus 2011. Despite the decrease, physical albums were still the dominant album format. Vinyl Record sales increased by 17.7% and Holiday Season Album sales decreased by 7,1%.[34]
Total revenue by year[edit]
Global trade revenue according to the IFPI.
Year | Revenue | Change | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
2005 | $20.7 billion | -3% | [41][42] |
2006 | $19.6 billion | -5% | [41] |
2007 | $18.8 billion | -4% | [43] |
2008 | $18.4 billion | -8% | [44] |
2009 | $17.4 billion | -5% | [45] |
2010 | $16.8 billion | -8.4% | [46] |
2011 | $16.2 billion | -3% | [46][47] (Includes sync revenues) |
2012 | $16.5 billion | +0.3% | [47] |
2013 | $15 billion | -3.9% | [48] |
2014 | $14.97 billion | -0.4% | [49] |
2015 | $15 billion | +3.2% | [50][51] |
By region[edit]
- Music industry of Asia
- Music industry of Europe
- Music industry of North America
- Music industry of South America
- Music industry of Africa
- Music industry of Oceania
Associations and organizations[edit]
- Academy of Country Music (ACM)
- Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies (AARC)
- American Association of Independent Music (A2IM)
- American Federation of Musicians (AFM)
- American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
- Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers (CAPIF)
- Asosiasi Industri Rekaman Indonesia (ASIRI)
- Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa (AFP)
- Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos (ABPD)
- Association of Independent Music (AIM)
- Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)
- Bureau International des Sociétés Gérant les Droits d'Enregistrement et de Reproduction Mécanique (BIEM)
- Billboard Magazine, known for the Billboard Hot 100
- British Phonographic Industry (BPI)
- Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI)
- Country Music Association (CMA)
- Federation of the Italian Music Industry (FIMI)
- GEMA in Germany
- Gospel Music Association (GMA)
- Hong Kong Recording Industry Alliance (HKRIA)
- Harry Fox Agency (for-profit branch of the NMPA)
- Indian Music Industry (IMI)
- International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)
- Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA)
- Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (LARAS)
- Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS)
- Music Canada
- Musicians Benevolent Fund
- Musicians' Union (MU)
- National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS)
- National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM)
- National Music Publishers Association (NMPA)
- Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI)
- PRS for Music (PRSM)
- Recording Artists' Coalition (RAC)
- Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
- Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ)
- Recording Industry Association of Korea (RIAK)
- Recording Industry Association of Singapore (RIAS)
- Recording Industry Association of Malaysia (RIM)
- Recording Industry of South Africa (RISA)
- Recording Industry Foundation in Taiwan (RIT)
- Recorded Music New Zealand (RMNZ)
- Society of European Stage Authors & Composers (SESAC)
- SoundExchange (SE)
- Thai Entertainment Content Trade Association (TECA)
- Union of Authors and Performers (ZAI)
Transparency[edit]
In the 15 or so years of the Internet economy, the digital music industry has come a long way, but there are still major hurdles to cross. Platforms like iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play are major improvements over the early illegal file sharing days, but the multitude of service offerings and revenue models make it difficult to understand the true value of each and what they can deliver for musicians and music companies. These difficulties are further compounded by the fact that, according to a new study from the Berklee College of Music and its Rethink Music initiative,[52] there are major transparency problems throughout the music industry caused by outdated technology. With the emerging of new business models as streaming platforms, and online music services, a large amount of data is processed. Access to big data may increase transparency in the industry.[53]
See also[edit]
- DIY ethic
- History of music publishing
- Independent record label
- List of record labels and Category:Record labels
- List of best-selling music artists
- MIDEM-World's largest music trade fair
- Record label
- Music community
References[edit]
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- ^ "The Music Industry". The Economist. October 15, 2008.
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Amazon is now the world’s biggest book retailer. Apple, the world’s largest music retailer.
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- ^ Mark Sweney "Universal's £1.2bn EMI takeover approved – with conditions", theguardian.com,
- ^ "Sold! EMI Music Publishing to Consortium Led by Sony/ATV, Michael Jackson Estate for $2.2 Billion", The Hollywood Reporter, June 30, 2012
- ^ McCardle, Megan (May 2010). "The Freeloaders". The Atlantic. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
industry revenues have been declining for the past 10 years
- ^ "2000 Industry World Sales" (PDF). IFPI annual report. April 9, 2001. Retrieved July 18, 2011.
- ^ Smirke, Richard (March 30, 2011). "IFPI 2011 Report: Global Recorded Music Sales Fall 8.4%; Eminem, Lady Gaga Top Int'l Sellers". Billboard Magazine. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
- ^ a b Arango, Tim (November 25, 2008). "Digital Sales Surpass CDs at Atlantic". The New York Times. Retrieved July 6, 2009.
- ^ a b "The music industry". The Economist. January 10, 2008.
- ^ a b c d Knopper, Steve (2009). Appetite for Self-Destruction: the Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age. Free Press. ISBN 1-4165-5215-4.
- ^ Borland, John (March 29, 2004). "Music sharing doesn't kill CD sales, study says". C Net. Retrieved July 6, 2009.
- ^ Andrew Orlowski. 80% want legal P2P - survey. The Register, 2008.
- ^ Shuman Ghosemajumder. Advanced Peer-Based Technology Business Models. MIT Sloan School of Management, 2002.
- ^ Segall, Laurie (January 5, 2012). "Digital music sales top physical sales". CNN. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
- ^ Dredge, Stuart (2015-04-03). "How much do musicians really make from Spotify, iTunes and YouTube?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-03-26.
- ^ "Exclusive: Taylor Swift on Being Pop's Instantly Platinum Wonder... And Why She's Paddling Against the Streams". yahoo.com. 6 November 2014.
- ^ "Taylor Swift Shuns 'Grand Experiment' of Streaming Music". Rolling Stone.
- ^ Rosso, Wayne (January 16, 2009). "Perspective: Recording industry should brace for more bad news". CNET. Retrieved 2009. Check date values in:
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- ^ Jefferson Graham (October 14, 2009). "Musicians ditch studios for tech such as GiO for Macs". U.S.A. Today.
- ^ Nathan Olivarez-Giles (October 13, 2009). "Recording studios are being left out of the mix". The Los Angeles Times.
- ^ All of the information in this section can be found in:* Krasilovsky, M. William; Shemel, Sidney; Gross, John M.; Feinstein, Jonathan (2007), This Business of Music (10th ed.), Billboard Books, ISBN 0-8230-7729-2
- ^ "Digital Music Report 2014" (PDF). p. 9. Retrieved June 7, 2015.
- ^ According to the RIAA the world music market is estimated at $40 billion, but according to IFPI (2004) it is estimated at $32 billion.
- ^ "IFPI releases definitive statistics on global market for recorded music". Ifpi.org. August 2, 2005. Retrieved September 17, 2013.
- ^ “The Nielsen Company & Billboard’s 2011 Music Industry Report,” Business Wire (January 5, 2012 08:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time)
- ^ Tom Pakinkis, "EMI lay-offs reported in the US," Music Week (Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 2:21PM)
- ^ a b “The Nielsen Company & Billboard’s 2012 Music Industry Report,” Business Wire (January 4, 2013 07:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time)
- ^ "Digital Music Futures and the Independent Music Industry", Clicknoise, February 1, 2007.
- ^ McIntyre, Hugh (October 16, 2014). "Not One Artist's Album Has Gone Platinum In 2014". Forbes. Forbes, Inc.
- ^ Sanders, Sam. "Taylor Swift, Platinum Party of One". NPR.
- ^ "RIAJ Yearbook 2015: IFPI 2013, 2014. Global Sales of Recorded Music" (PDF). Recording Industry Association of Japan. p. 24. Retrieved June 7, 2015.
- ^ BUSINESS AND PROPERTIES The Seagram Company Ltd.
- ^ "Midyear Digital Music Milestones". July 11, 2011. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
There's probably no one single reason, but we’d like to think that enhanced marketing efforts – like the sale of music at nontraditional outlets – and anti-piracy successes like the closure of LimeWire have helped.
- ^ a b Downloads fail to stem fall in global music sales The Guardian
- ^ Press Release: "Digital Formats continue to drive the Global Music Market," IFPI (London, March 31, 2006).
- ^ IFPI reveals 2007 recorded music revenues decline Music Ally
- ^ Global music sales down 8 percent in 2008: IFPI Reuters
- ^ IFPI 2011 Report: Global Recorded Music Sales Fall 8.4% Billboard
- ^ a b IFPI 2012 Report: Global Music Revenue Down 3% Billboard
- ^ a b IFPI Digital Music Report 2013: Global Recorded Music Revenues Climb for First Time Since 1999 Billboard
- ^ IFPI Digital Music Report 2014: Global Recorded Music Revenues Down 4% Billboard
- ^ Richard Smirke (April 14, 2015). "Global Record Business Dips Slightly, U.S. Ticks Upwards In IFPI's 2015 Report". billboard.com. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
- ^ "IFPI Global Report: Digital Revenues Surpass Physical for the First Time as Streaming Explodes". Retrieved 2016-07-22.
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- ^ http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6627418/what-a-mess-new-report-from-berklee-college-of-music-looks-to-fix-an-aging study
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Further reading[edit]
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- Lebrecht, Norman: When the Music Stops: Managers, Maestros and the Corporate Murder of Classical Music, Simon & Schuster 1996
- Imhorst, Christian: The ‘Lost Generation’ of the Music Industry, published under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License 2004
- Gerd Leonhard: Music Like Water – the inevitable music ecosystem
- The Methods Reporter: Music Industry Misses Mark with Wrongful Suits
- Music CD Industry – a mid-2000 overview put together by Duke University undergraduate students
- d’Angelo, Mario: Does globalisation mean ineluctable concentration ? in The Music Industry in the New Economy, Report of the Asia-Europe Seminar, Lyon, Oct. 25–28, 2001, IEP de Lyon/Asia-Europe Foundation/Eurical, Editors Roche F., Marcq B., Colomé D., 2002, pp. 53–54.
- d'Angelo, Mario: Perspectives of the Management of Musical Institutions in Europe, OMF, Musical Activities and Institutions Sery, ParisIV-Sorbonne University, Ed. Musicales Aug. Zurfluh, Bourg-la-Reine, 2006.
- Hill, Dave: Designer Boys and Material Girls: Manufacturing the [19]80s Pop Dream. Poole, Eng.: Blandford Press, 1986. ISBN 0-7137-1857-9
- Rachlin, Harvey. The Encyclopedia of the Music Business. First ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1981. xix, 524 p. ISBN 0-06-014913-2
- The supply of recorded music: A report on the supply in the UK of prerecorded compact discs, vinyl discs and tapes containing music. Competition Commission, 1994.
- Gillett, A. G., & Smith, G. (2015). Creativities, innovation, and networks in garage punk rock: A case study of the Eruptörs. Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, 9-24.
- Tschmuck, Peter: Creativity and Innovation in the Music Industry, Springer 2006.
- Ulrich Dolata: The Music Industry and the Internet. A Decade of Disruptive and Uncontrolled Sectoral Change. Research Contributions to Organizational Sociology and Innovation Studies. Discussion Paper 2011-02. full text online
External links[edit]
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- New York Metro article by Michael Wolff analyzing the decline of the record industry
- Salon article on Courtney Love's criticism of record industry business practices
- Federal Trade Commission press release regarding price fixing
- Antitrust settlement in Nevada price-fixing case
- Songwriter Janis Ian's critique of the record industry's policies
- The Net is the Independent Artist's Radio – August 10, 2005 MP3 Newswire article
- Music Downloads: Pirates- or Customers?. Silverthorne, Sean. Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2004.
- The British Library - Music Industry Guide (sources of information)
- The ASCAP Resource Guide: Recording Industry
- BPI: Music business – Industry Structure
- Academic articles about the music industry The Music Business Journal