1. Production: The recording of the music. Where and how?
2. Distribution: how the music is promoted? how does it get in to shops, played on the radio and made available for payable downloads?
3. Consumption: how do people consume the music made available? buying CD's downloading music, buying tickets for concerts, buying merchandise.
4. How things have changed from analogue to digital using our record companys as a illustration ( how they have made the shift).

•  To develop a case study on a paticular recprd label
• This institution must be located  in the contemporary music industry.
•  The institution must produce and/ or distribute music in the UK
• where researching your chosen record lable you must focus on 3 key areas : Production, Distribution and Consumption.

More then 31,000 new album titles (including re-issues) were released in the UK  last year, second only to the US- wich demonstrates the commitment to  from the UK record companies.

Uk record compamies invest 17% of turnover in A&R. DTI data shows the other industries with traditions of heavy R&D expenditure such as pharmaceuticals actually spend a smaller proportions  of revenue on developing new products then the UK record industry invests in the development of new artsists.

British artists accounter for 49.4% of artists albums sold in the UK un 2005- the highest annual total since 1998. This represented 62m units- the highest total single year by british musicians.

Downloading-one of the ways audiences consume music.

Analogue- has a physical contact with the vinal with a needle.

How you listen to usic has changed beacause of digitalisation. For example instead of listenimng to vinal the way you listen to music has now progressed to CD's. As well as this the way you pay for music has changed beacause of digitalisation. For example file sharing is an way of passing music from one person to another via blue tooth on peoples phones, this is a free way of sharing music.

This is a case study of two record  companies who target the UK audience. One will be a Major lable one will be a Independant lable.

The case study should look at the production, consumption, distribution/ marketing and exchange of audiences and institutions. Domestic expenditure on music in all forms totals almost £5 billion a year and music activities generate the equivilent of 126'000 full-time jobs in the uk.

The UK is the third largest market in the world for sales of music, behind only the USA and Japan. Saled in the UK amounted to 10.4% of all music sold globally in 2004 . As a source of repertoire, the UK is secon only to the USA.

Britain is a nation of muic lovers and we buy more music than any other contry-3.2 CDs per person each year.