ABSTRACT

Record Label Marketing offers a comprehensive look at the inner workings of record labels, showing how the record labels connect commercial music with consumers. In the current climate of selling music through both traditional channels and new media, authors Tom Hutchison, Paul Allen and Amy Macy carefully explain the components of the contemporary record label's marketing plan and how it is executed. This new edition is clearly illustrated throughout with figures, tables, graphs, and glossaries, and includes a valuable overview of the music industry.

Record Label Marketing has become essential reading for current and aspiring professionals, and for music business students everywhere. The book also has a companion website located at www.recordlabelmarketing.com.

Record Label Marketing.
* Gives you an exclusive and complete look at SoundScan and how it is used as a marketing tool
* Presents essential information on uses of new media, label publicity, advertising, retail distribution, and marketing research by record labels
* Offers insight into how successful labels use videos, promotional touring, and special products to build revenue
* Includes important specialized marketing strategies using the tools of grassroots promotion and international opportunities
* Reveals how labels are managing within their transitional digital industry
* Looks to the future of the music business - how online developments, technological diffusion, and convergence and new markets continue to reshape the industry

chapter 1|20 pages

Marketing Concepts and Defi nitions

chapter 3|24 pages

The U.S. Industry Numbers

chapter 4|28 pages

Marketing Research

chapter 5|12 pages

Record Label Operations

chapter 6|20 pages

The Profi t and Loss Statement

chapter 7|42 pages

SoundScan and the Music Business

chapter 8|20 pages

How Radio Works

chapter 9|20 pages

Charts, Airplay, and Promotion

chapter 10|22 pages

Publicity of Recorded Music

chapter 11|22 pages

Advertising in the Recording Industry

chapter 12|36 pages

Music Distribution and Retailing

chapter 13|12 pages

Grassroots Marketing

chapter 14|36 pages

New Media Marketing

chapter 15|12 pages

Music Videos

chapter 16|32 pages

The International Recording Industry

chapter 17|8 pages

Tour Support and Promotional Touring

chapter 18|16 pages

Strategic Marketing and Special Products

chapter 19|16 pages

The Recording Industry of the Future

chapter 20|16 pages

The Marketing Plan