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Record labels may be small, localized and "independent" ("indie"), or they may be part of a large international media group, or somewhere in between.The Association of Independent Music (AIM) defines a 'major' as "a multinational company which (together with the companies in its group) has more than 5% of the world market(s) for the sale of records or music videos."
Lists of record labels cover record labels, brands or trademarks associated with marketing of music recordings and music videos. The lists are organized ...
Clockwise from top left: Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Madonna.Four of the artists who have had the largest recording contracts up to one point. [a]The following is a list of the largest music deals in history signed by artists, including recording contracts and multi-rights agreements with over $50 million, as well catalog acquisitions with a reported sum of over $150 ...
The RIAA represents over 1,600 member labels, which are private corporate entities such as record labels and distributors, and collectively create and distribute about 90% of recorded music sold in the United States. The largest and most influential of the members are the "Big Three": Sony Music Entertainment; Universal Music Group; Warner ...
A crowd buying records in the Dusty Groove store during the Record Store Day, April 2014. Aside of paid advertising in print or broadcast media, radio airplay is one of the most important tools to sell records. A research commissioned by one of major label groups stated that "four out of five music purchases can be traced to radio airplay. [27]
The following is an attempt to list some of the most valuable records. Data is sourced from Record Collector , eBay , Popsike, the Jerry Osborne Record Price Guides, and other sources. Wu-Tang Clan 's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin CD (of which only one copy was produced) was sold through Paddle8 on November 24, 2015, for $2,000,000, according to ...
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In the UK, labels considered collectible, such as Atlantic Records, Sun Records, Motown, and Parlophone , turned into mainstream major record labels later on in the 1960s. In the US, New York's Times Square store is widely acknowledged for feeding the doo-wop revival of the early sixties, attention focusing on them from 1959.