Record Label Marketing

2. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-240-81238-0
Verlag: FOCAL PR

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 188 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 739 g

Record Label Marketing offers a comprehensive look at the inner workings of record labels, showing how the record labels connect commercial music with consumers. In the current climate of selling music through both traditional channels and new media, authors Tom Hutchison, Paul Allen and Amy Macy carefully explain the components of the contemporary record label's marketing plan and how it is executed. This new edition is clearly illustrated throughout with figures, tables, graphs, and glossaries, and includes a valuable overview of the music industry.

Record Label Marketing has become essential reading for current and aspiring professionals, and for music business students everywhere.

Record Label Marketing.
* Gives you an exclusive and complete look at SoundScan and how it is used as a marketing tool
* Presents essential information on uses of new media, label publicity, advertising, retail distribution, and marketing research by record labels
* Offers insight into how successful labels use videos, promotional touring, and special products to build revenue
* Includes important specialized marketing strategies using the tools of grassroots promotion and international opportunities
* Reveals how labels are managing within their transitional digital industry
* Looks to the future of the music business - how online developments, technological diffusion, and convergence and new markets continue to reshape the industry

Zielgruppe

Students in music business or industry programs at college or university level. Students in music recording programs. Entry-level personnel in the music industry in marketing, sales or distribution. Entrepreneurs seeking entry into the music business. Aspiring musicians/managers. Junior to medium management in music and media. Musicians and songwriters/composers. Junior media practitioners in music-related fields.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hutchison, Tom

Macy, Amy

Allen, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikindustrie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikveranstaltungen und -organisationen, Aufführungspraxis
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Musikindustrie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Marketing
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Vertrieb

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Basics of Marketing 2. Market Segmentation and Consumer Behaviour3. The Industry Numbers4. Marketing Research 5. Record Label Operations 6. Profit and Loss Statement7. SoundScan and the Music Business8. How Radio Works9. Charts, Airplay and Promotion10. Publicity of Recorded Music11. Advertising in the Recording Industry12. Distribution 13. Music Retail Environment14. Internet Marketing /Grassroots Marketing15. Music Videos16. International Marketing17. Tour Support ? Promotional touring18. Special Products and Special Markets19. The Recording Industry of the Future20. The Marketing Plan

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Allen is Associate Professor in the Department of Recording Industry at Middle Tennessee State University and co-author of Record Label Marketing, also published by Focal Press. He is also a frequent lecturer at other universities on artist management and other music business subjects. His career work has included radio, TV, political management, and the music business.