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.