Areas around the music industry

                                                      The Music industry

Artist Management

What a artist manager does is that they do all of the paperwork for the artist/band, they are in charge of the business side in the music industry. The manager organises the touring, promotion, bookings, auditions and deals for the artists, they also give the artist advice for certain things. To have a manager you don't need to be signed... most manager's help out the un-signed artists, to hep them pursue their career. A artists who is signed and has a manager, they act more as a superviser than just a manager, a manager will do everything in their power to make sure that the artist get's what they wnat and that everything is fair/equal. In the UK there's only one artist manager, however in America the artist manager would manage more than one artist. Being a artist manager can be fun at times, but you would have to deal with a lot of work.

In the music indsutry the manager only gets paid 20% of the artists fee, it's not a lot of money but it still helps.

To be a Artist manager you need to have the responbility and the ability to be a hard working person, smart, consistant, you should be able to multi task, to deal with difficult sitauations, oranigsed, advisable and negtiotable. You would need to take on the hard and tough things in the business side of the music industrym also you would need to make the right decisions by making your artist happy - which means he/she/they won't fire you.

An example of a artist manager (American) Is:  Bryant Cortez. He is the chief officer of Young Money Entertainment and the founder of Bryant management. He is one of the most successful business man in the music industry. The artists that He manages is Lil Wayne, Drake and more. Bryant has helped Drake sell about a million of records, which makes him what he is today.

Record companies/record label
A record label is associated with  marketing music of music recordings , videos, and sales.
Record labels are sometimes are companies because they manage other brands and trademarks.
In a record label there is many areas that people play apart in such as managing, promoting, production, distribution,  and so on.  There's many record labels, there's major labels such as universal, Warner and Sony music. These are one of biggest record labels in the music industry , they are in charge if almost everything in the music industry - about the music business.
Major record labels own their own sublabels , such as island records. Sub labels are like an imprint or a subordinate label company.

In a record label there's vanity labels as well , 'vanity records are like an imprint that gives the impression of artists ownership or control'.

When it comes to record companies, their purpose is to sell records. Record companies is like a bank, they'll give you money as long as you sell loads of records. Record companies would give you a lot of money only if you do their dept they'll give you money in advance, however when you sell a lot of records - some money would go to the record company, some will go to the Government, the manager (if you have a manger) and then you'll get your cut but you as the artist is the last person to get the cut.

Examples of Major record labels is:

Universal - This is one of the major record label, that people know it's owner by a French media. They own a publishing group as well. This major record label is like the parent towards other record labels, they are a big company and a big organization. They've got a lot of distributors as well,

Sony music - This is another major record label, they are one of the biggest as well. This record label is based in new York (USA). They have their own record labels; one of them is called RCA records.
Sony music is a big coorp, not just music but Sony it's self is really major , as they they do other selling products such as games and such.

Live performanceA live performance, is a like a concert where a lot of performers would perform, normally artists would do tours around the country and a big crowd would come in. In a performance there's a lot of equipment there such as lights.
But it's not only artists perform mostly, a musical assemble would perform, a choir .

In the music industry artists would get most of their money from touring but they'd have to be performing at places such as ' The 02 Arena, stadiums' and other big places. This is how artists get the money just behind their record sales. Normally big artists like ' Elton john, Rihanna, Chris Brown ' would get a lot of money for touring because they are really known. Most of the time they'll probably get about 10 grand or more for a show.

Mostly every artist performs, sometimes it's just not for a paid performance it could be for free or for charity. The reason why some do it for free is for more exposure - if they're lucky enough most of the time a business person/manager would see which artist is good enough so that they could work with the artist.

This is Trey Songz. He has toured around the country, countries like London, Austrailia, America and more. When it comes to touring he has earned a lot of money.

Examples of artists who does live performances is drake, Trey Songz, Rihanna and many more.
These examples of artists they have toured around the country this would mean they would have to fly to a lot of places... Although they would get tons of money because they would be performing in many cities as well - it's really tiring.

Music publishing A music publisher is the people who makes sure that the people behind the scenes would also get their payment. people like song-writer's or composers would get paid... But through a contract. However they would have to agree with the contract.

' In a nutshell, a music publisher owns or administers copyrights in songs, and licenses them to companies' ref. (http://www.hevedburgmusic.com/article2.html)

The things that Music publisher's can do is that, they can promote, protect, develop, found and collect. These are the roles that music publisher's can do.

In the Music industry, publisher's can be responsible for song-writer's and composer's as well. They deal with the payments for the both of them. Publisher's will make sure that the Song wrier's will get paid, from whatever it says on their contract - song writer's would need to sign a contract before the Music publisher's can help them. Music publisher's deals with royalties as well and they distrubute to the composer's too.

Music publisher's deal with Copy rights as well. If you own a song then you will have the rights to whatever you want with the song - you could change the format or whatever. But no one can change it without your permission.

In the music industry there's different type of publisher's, there's major record label publisher's, independants and subsidants. 

You do not need to be signed to a record company to have a publisher or your record company doesn't need to be linked to a major record label company. 

Examples of independant publisher's is:

Universal music publishing - This is one of the biggest Music publishing company, as it's the most successful one in the music industry.

Sherlock Holmes LtD - This is a independant Music publishing company.

Music publisher's would also deal with Synchronisation fee. This means that if your song gets played on TV, films or whatever, the company would need your persmision first and then they/you will handle the fee. when having your song on TV it earns you a lot of money.

At times you don't need a publisher, you can just D.I.Y (Do It Yourself). However this concerns more paperwork, individual work, you would have to join all the collection of agencies. But in other words self publishing is more bettter because all of the rights go to you, all of the money goes to you, everything you do goes to you, on the other hand you won't benefit from the other services.

" A music publisher seeks talented songwriters and songs to represen in the same way a record company exploits (i.e uses or sells) recordings, a music publisher exploits songs in order to earn money for their writers.” – Chris Bradford Music Publishing Outloud (SMT)