record labels

Record label

Music magazines are usually dedicated to a certain type of music and subculture. Most music magazines focus on one genre although some magazines tend to extend there audience. They usually contain: music that has similar elements to other genres, they feature star persona and various genres through singers/musicians.

Stars are often characterized differently depending on there audience; beyonce, Alicia Dixon could be presented in a pop or rnb magazine- in which they are shown as a cute grown up feminine star or rather provocative in the next.

Music magazine Genre targets certain audiences so it needs to be specific, (E.G 7-13 years old)

Apart from the big music labels there are also independent labels that operate without funding from major record labels. Even though they are on their own they still appear to feature on other labels E.G Eminem.

Major labels since 2008 (Big Four)

1. Warner Music Group
2. EMI
3. Sony Music Entertainment
4. Universal Music Group

There are four main music record labels that sell compositions, recordings and performances of music. These major record labels target different origins and background each of these major labels consists of smaller companies and labels serving different regions and markets.

Record label companies manage brands, trademarks and they organize the production of videos for broadcast and retail sale

institutions

Institutions
(Big Four)
BBC
EMAP
IPC MEDIA
BAUER

They are in charge of distributing products which target a wide range of audience and one way of doing this is music magazines. Music magazines contain artists from different record labels but have a specific target audience, they create multiple types of magazines to target all kinds of people (depending on demographics, geography and social class) but generally are know most commonly for there main target audience for example.
The bbc is know for targeting young adults to adults and above