1. Case studies taskBy Daniel Gerrish

2. (some of the)Artists I Like 3. Associatedlabels 4. Case Study 1:Major Label 5. EPIC is a subsidiary record label of Sony Music Groupwho belong to Sony Corporation. It is also part of aconglomerate in the music business with Sony owningother labels such as Syco, CBS, and Arista recordlabels. Sony Music Group is part of a oligopoly since they own21.9% of the market which they operate in. Biggest achievement Album: Thriller (1982) Michael Jackson Worlds Biggest Selling Album of all Time 6. Other Artists atThis Label:Currently-. Paloma Faith.Sade.The Script.Ozzy Osbourne. Jennifer LopezPast-. WHAM!.Meat loaf. Alice Cooper.Luther Vandross.Culture Club 7. Horizontal integration: Sony own other record labelssuch as Syco, RCA and ColumbiaSonyCorp.Sony Music 8. Production: They have record labels/ musicproducers such Epic.Distribution: They also have distributionRED distributionExchange: They also have Music Unlimitedand online sites to access music from inorder to exhibit and exchange music. 9. John Branca and John McClain areexecutors of the Michael Jackson estate.Previous managers are Frank Dileo 10. Bad 25 is the 25th anniversary edition reissue of theoriginal 1987 album and was released in September2012. The album is a multi-disc set which includes the originalalbum (Remastered) as well as unreleased materialrecorded during the Bad sessions. Original Bad Album (1987) is the eleventh best sellingalbum ever. 11. Pepsi printed an image of Michael Jacksonon one billion Pepsi cans.Spike lee Made documentary on The BadAlbum and its creation.A TV 2 hour show was shown of all theoriginal music videos from Bad.A reissue of I Just Cant Stop Loving Yousingle with a New B-side Dont Be Messinaround 12. Michael Jackson is involved on many social media websites so it canpost and advertise news on current events and keep fans interested. For example the Michael Jackson Facebook Page has 52 millionlikes. Also music videos can be found on YouTube undermichaeljacksonVevo 13. Michael Jacksons music is on manystreaming service (free + subscription) aswell as download sites and stores. 14. During an album released in 2010 thecompany set up a project called Behindthe Mask Project (which was advertisedover the web and social networking sites)to get fans to help create a music video fora song on the album. 15. Adeles latest album is 21 which wasreleased in January 2011.This album was recorded in variousstudios in London and LA.This is unlike some other largerlabels/artists who some record wholealbums in one studio because they canafford to use them. 16. Manager: Jonathan Dickins (who alsomanagers other artists) was introduced byanother artist to Adele. 17. Adeles album and other releases from XlRecordings and Distributed by an outsidecompany called the Beggars Group.This is unlike Sony who own Distributioncompanies to distribute there ownreleases.The album is available in most formatsboth physical and Digital. 18. Adele is on social media websites just likeother artists and Michael Jackson.This again includes websites such asfacebook and YouTube.This means that smaller labels/artists areable to reach the same amount of peopleand remain competitive despite beingsometimes smaller. 19. Again the music is available to downloadand stream on many different sites.Examples are below...