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In the early years of the phonograph in the late 19th century, the music industry was dominated by the publishers of sheet music. With the start of the 20th century the importance of recorded sound grew in the business, and about the end of the first World War records supplanted sheet music as the largest player in the music business. The business has largely been dominated and controlled by the record industry, as the economics of mass-production of copies allow the manufacture of valuable music recordings for a tiny fraction of their sale price. There have been repeated allegations of illegal price fixing by the record industry. It has been suggested that Direct-drive_turntable be merged into this article or section. ...
Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The music industry is the industry that creates, performs, promotes, and preserves music. ...
(19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...
Jump to: navigation, search World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ...
Any agreement between business competitors regarding price is considered price fixing and is illegal in many countries. ...
The Recording Artists' Coalition exists to represent the interests of members of the music industry, in their fight against what they see as inequitable treatment by the record industry. The Recording Artists Coalition (RAC) is an American music industry organization that represents recording artists, and attempts to defend their rights and interests. ...
There is a fundamental tension between the two industries -- they have been in an uneasy symbiotic / parasitic relationship since this time, which is threatened by the advent of file sharing technologies. Critics of the record industry have compared it to the buggy whip industry, fighting the disruptive technology of file sharing by all possible means. File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. ...
A buggy whip is a coach whip used for driving on horses harnessed to a buggy, or small open carriage. ...
A disruptive technology is a new technological innovation, product, or service that eventually overturns the existing dominant technology in the market, despite the fact that the disruptive technology is both radically different than the leading technology and that it often initially performs worse than the leading technology according to existing...
List of record industry organizations
The Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) is the Australian counterpart of the Recording Industry Association of America. ...
The Canadian Recording Industry Association is a non-profit trade organization that was founded in 1964 to represent the interests of Canadian companies that create, manufacture and market sound recordings. ...
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is a trade organisation representing the recording industry. ...
The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) is the Irish counterpart of the Recording Industry Association of America. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade group representing the U.S. recording industry. ...
Related topics A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ...
The global music market was estimated at $30-40 billion in 2004 (*). Total annual unit sales (CDs, music video, mp3) in 2004 were 3 billion. ...
External links Singer/sonwriter Janis Ian Janis Ian (born April 7, 1951) is a Grammy-winning American songwriter, singer and multi-instrumental musician. ...
Further reading - Where have all the good times gone? -- the rise and fall of the record industry Louis Barfe
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