Major Record Labels
The music industry is overpowered by four major record labels named EMI, Sony Music, Universal Music and Warner Music Group. These major record labels are known as the Majors. the record labels are also involved in other industries such as TV, Films and Electronics.
Major Independents
Major independent is when a company that either licenses or owns a number of smaller companies so they could be involved and so they could reach different type of audiences in different types of genre's.
- Columbia
- Island
- Syco
- RCA
- Virgin
there are so many small companies without a link to the majors which puts them in a different position. the small companies usually focus on small numbers of acts in which they specialize in the industry. these kind of companies are usually know as independents a example of a very successful independent company is 'domino records'.
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