Domination In The Music Industry

In the music industry there are companies who dominate, so they have the most customers and usually produce the most record labels.Buying smaller firms and having the money to sign up more artists and make them into superstars.

These are companies such as:

• Universal - universal are a big company that own many smaller companies in the market. It owns smaller companies such as hollywood records and cash money record artists. Some famous artists that you may know who have been signed to universal are Black Eyed Peas and Janet Jackson. 
• Sony Music - Sony music also dominate in the market by owning echo records and companies such as syco music. Many artists that you may know have been built up by sony music such as Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Usher. 
• Warner Brothers - The warner brothers own companies such as The stanley company of America and First national pictures. They roduced artists such as Cher and Biffy Clyro.
• EMI - Emi own many small companies such as Abbey road studios, charisma records and Ten records. They produced artists such as Cliff Richard and Lily Allen. 

These are 'The Majors'