Music industry Music industry Artist and repertoire (A&R for short) is a music industry term that refers to the division of a record label that is responsible for scouting and developing talent. The A&R department is the link between the recording artist/act and the record label, and is often required to handle contractual negotiations, find songwriters and record producers for the act, and schedule recording sessions. ...more on Wikipedia about "A&R"
Acoustic Control Corporation was a manufacturer of instrument amplifiers, founded started by Steve Marks (with the help of his father) and based in Van Nuys, California. Its original location was a shack on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acoustic Control Corporation"
AHDS Performing Arts supports research, learning and teaching in the areas of music, dance, theatre and radio, film & TV with high quality and dependable digital resources. ...more on Wikipedia about "AHDS Performing Arts"
The Blitz Kids were a group of famous people that frequented the Blitz nightclub in the early 1980s. Among their number were Steve Strange, Leigh Bowery, Boy George and his boyfriend Marilyn, Princess Julia, Philip Sallon and Martin Degville (later to be the frontman of Tony James' Sigue Sigue Sputnik). ...more on Wikipedia about "Blitz Kids"
A bootleg recording is a audio or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority. A great many such recordings are simply copied and traded among fans of the artist without financial exchange, but some bootleggers are able to sell these rarities for profit, sometimes by adding professional-quality sound engineering and packaging to the raw material. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bootleg recording"
Chris Gorman is a serial entrepreneur who lives in Scotland. He was an organiser of the Live 8 concert in Edinburgh. OBE in 2005 ...more on Wikipedia about "Chris Gorman"
Chris Strachwitz is the founder and president of Arhoolie Records. Strachwitz was born on July 1, 1931, in Silesia, and emigrated to the United States in 1947. He has made a career out of finding and publishing previously unrecorded or obscure blues and folk musicians. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chris Strachwitz" Please tell your friends about shortopedia
A music album is certified a diamond album by the RIAA when 10 million copies are shipped in the United States. If an album is double disc, it is certified diamond after shipping 5 million copies. ...more on Wikipedia about "Diamond album"
A diamond single is a single that has reached a certain level of official sales. In the United States the program is run by the RIAA, which introduced the first award system in 1958 with an award of a diamond record for 10,000,000 copies shiped. ...more on Wikipedia about "Diamond single"
Free music, like free software, is music that can freely be copied, distributed and modified for any purpose. Thus free music is either in the public domain or licensed under a public license. It does not mean that there should be no fee involved. The word free refers to freedom (as in free software), not to price. ...more on Wikipedia about "Free music"
A Gold album is a music album that has sold a minimum number of copies (in the United States, currently 500,000 sales). Originally applied to LP records, this RIAA certification is now most commonly awarded for compact disc sales. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gold album"
Hamilton Stands Inc. is a musical instrument accessories manufacturing company based in Middletown, Ohio, and has existed since 1883. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hamilton Stands"
The MCPS-PRS Alliance is an operational alliance between the UK's mechanical right collecting society, the MCPS, and the UK's performing right collecting society, the PRS. The companies license the use of music on behalf of songwriters, composers and music publishers. ...more on Wikipedia about "MCPS-PRS Alliance"
The Mechanical Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) is responsible for collecting and distributing royalties to composers, songwriters and publishers for recording of copyrighted music onto many different formats. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mechanical Copyright Protection Society" Just www.shortopedia.com way shortopedia
The music industry is the industry that creates, performs, promotes, and preserves music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Music industry"
Music radio is a radio format where music is the primary source of broadcast content on both commercial and non-commercial stations. After the rise of television brought about the decline of old time radio and its dramatic content, music formats became one of the dominant forms of radio in many countries, though radio drama and comedy continues, often on public radio. Music has been one of the driving factors in the advancement of radio technology, from the adoption of wide-band FM to the current upswing in digital media. ...more on Wikipedia about "Music radio"
Needle time was created in the United Kingdom by the Musicians' Union and Phonographic Performances Limited, in order to restrict the amount of recorded music that could be transmitted by British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC) during the course of any 24 hour period. The term "needle time" comes from the use (at the time) of phonograph records as the main source of music, which were played on phonograph record players using a phonograph needle. ...more on Wikipedia about "Needle time"
The Performing Right Society (often shortened to PRS) is the collecting society for UK songwriters, composers and music publishers. Its role is to act as an agent for its members in order to collect performing royalties whenever their musical works are performed in public, broadcast or transmitted. They formed an alliance with their sister company the MCPS, who collect mechanical royalties, to form the MCPS-PRS Alliance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Performing Right Society"
The Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) is a music industry organisation that collects and distributes airplay and public performance royalties in the United Kingdom on behalf of over 3,000 record companies and 30,000 performers. The PPL was formed in 1934 to represent the interests of the recording industry, and from 1996 the interests of recording artists. Its offices are located on Golden Square just off Piccadilly Circus in the west end of London, England. PPL is closely related to IFPI which is also based in London. ...more on Wikipedia about "Phonographic Performance Limited"
A platinum single is a single that has reached a certain level of official sales. In the United States the program is run by the RIAA, which introduced the first award system in 1958 with an award of a platinum record for 1,000,000 copies sold. ...more on Wikipedia about "Platinum single"
PureVolume is a website for rising bands and musical artists to promote themselves. Each artist/band has its own miniature website which usually includes news, photos, upcoming shows, background/ biographical information, contact information, and music for free listening and downloads. Over 150,000 artists house such profiles on PureVolume, most of whom hover around the rock genres, particularly alternative rock, indie rock, and punk rock and its subgenres. ...more on Wikipedia about "PureVolume"
The record industry is the part of the music industry that earns profit by selling sound recordings of music. In the early years of the phonograph in the late 19th century, the music industry was dominated by the publishers of sheet music. With the start of the 20th century the importance of recorded sound grew in the business, and about the end of the first World War records supplanted sheet music as the largest player in the music business. The business has largely been dominated and controlled by the record industry, as the economics of mass-production of copies allow the manufacture of valuable music recordings for a tiny fraction of their sale price. There have been repeated allegations of illegal price fixing by the record industry. ...more on Wikipedia about "Record industry"
A recording contract (also commonly called a record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist (or group), where the artist makes a record (or series of records) for the label to sell and promote. Artists under contract are normally only allowed to record for that label exclusively; guest appearances on other artists' records will carry a notice "By courtesy of (the name of the label)", and that label may receive a percentage of sales. ...more on Wikipedia about "Recording contract"
Selling out is a common slang phrase. Broadly speaking, it refers to the compromising of one's integrity in exchange for money or other personal gain. It is commonly associated with attempts to increase mass appeal or acceptability to mainstream society. A person who does this is labelled a sellout. ...more on Wikipedia about "Selling out"
Sole Unlimited Distribution is a vinyl record distribution company founded by Chicago techno producer Frankie Vega in 2001 to distribute records exclusively for Dust Traxx Records in Chicago. Sole Unlimited specializes in directly contacting local record stores through in-house salesmen and playing tracks over the phone rather than selling through industry wide catalog base distributors. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sole Unlimited Distribution"
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