1. Unit 1: The Music Industry (External Exam)
Learning Aim A:
Understand different types of organisations that make up the music industry
Lesson 3: Production & Promotion (5th October 2016)

2. Production and Promotion
No musician can survive without the support of others. The production and promotion teams are crucial to a successful career in the music industry.
Production teams help the musician make and record their music to a high standard.
Promotion teams help the musician advertise their music so that people buy it.

3. Write or improve songs/pieces, Choose suitable pieces,
Recording companies:
These can be big or ‘major’ companies or smaller ‘independent’ companies.
These ‘production’ companies are sometimes called ‘Record labels’ and they ‘sign up’ and artist to help them:
Write or improve songs/pieces,
Choose suitable pieces,
Record their music in a professional studio

4. Music Publishing companies:
These can be big companies who make thousands of copies of CDs, DVDs etc. and have factories all over the globe. They charge huge amounts of money for this usually paid for by the Recording company/record label.
OR… A musician can go down the ‘self-publishing’ route where they pay to have the CD/DVD made themselves in smaller companies (only making a few copies of a CD/DVD) or even making them in their own home/school.

5. Promoters:
These companies can be big or small and they arrange events for musicians to showcase their music, for example:
Concerts
Clubs
Festivals

6. Broadcasting companies:
These companies can be big or small and they are like promoters, arranging events for musicians to showcase their music, but usually on a bigger scale reaching a bigger audience. Examples of broadcasting companies include:
TV companies
Radio stations
Internet sites

7. Marketing and Distribution companies:
Marketing companies advertise your music in any way they can. This could include:
Posters
TV/Radio/Internet adverts
Websites/Social media
Stunts eg. a flash-mob
Face-to-face chatting to public
Distribution companies deliver the music product to the customer. They are usually big companies and have to persuade shops to stock their product and then transport it to the shops.
This could be:
High street stores/supermarkets
Online shops (eg, CDs from Amazon or downloads from iTunes)
Social media

8. Task:
Design a flow chart to show how a piece of music (CD/Album) is created and made available to purchase by consumers.

9. Production company or Record label
Performer
Publishing company
Distribution companies
Marketing companies
Promoters and Broadcasting companies
Successful Artist