Music is based upon the personality. The type of music a person listens to can be seen through the way they dress, speak, act and the type of surroundings. You can tell what people’s interests are just by looking through their ipod.

Universal Music Group

EMI Group

Warner Music Group

Sony Music Entertainment

Independents are usually small independent record labels that have no financial connections to the Major record labels. Majors and independents are very similar because they produce music but are very different in the way they promote it. Record labels can be small and independent, or they could be part of a large international media group, somewhere in between.

Manufactured programmes with live feeds.

Music Television becoming more popular.

The Internet and the risk of downloads

Download programmes such as Limewire

•Promotes a specific single and, normally, an album

•Promotes a specific artist or band

•Creates, adapts or feeds into a ‘star image’

•Entertains as product in its own right Reinforces, adapts or undermines the ‘meanings’ of a song

Warner Music Group Warner Music Group owns some of the world's

best known record labels. Some of the Warner Music Group labels include:

– Atlantic Records – Bad Boy– Roadrunner Records– Asylum Records– East West Records – Rhino Records – Sub Pop Records – Rykodisc Records – Reprise Records

Universal Music Group

Some of these subsidiary labels are among the best selling and most recognizable names in music in their own right such as :

• Interscope • Geffen • Motown • Def Jam • Island• So So Def• Roc-a-fella • Verve

Sony Music Entertainment There are more than 20 labels that are

owned and distributed by the corporation. Sony BMG labels include some of the biggest names in the business, like:

• Epic • Jive • Columbia • RCA • Arista • LaFace • Zomba Music Group • Legacy • J Records • Red Music Distribution

EMI Group

EMI licenses and distributes albums from a significant and ever changing number of independent labels such as :

• Positiva Records • Stateside Records • EMI Records • Capitol Records Nashville • EMI Hemisphere • Liberty Records • Parlophone