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Sony Music plans to Relaunch Distribution with Vinyl Records
The era of vinyl records continues to make a comeback with Sony Music resuming production from a distribution center in Japan. They plan to relaunch vinyl production in March 2018. During the '70s to the mid '80s vinyl records were the primary medium for people to listen to music. As the the compact disc (CD) became popular in the '90s, the vinyl record medium was slowly replaced with a plastic, and cheaper method to produce music for mass consumption. After the CD has its run for a decade, digital music started to replace the CD. This would starting in
Streaming Music Sales in the United States on the Rebound
The music industry has gone through some major changes since 1997. Before the Internet reached mass market, consumers would go to central record stores, produced by large-scale corporate record companies, and buy copies of albums for sale. Once Napster hit homes across the globe in 1999, music went from being controlled by a few record companies, to having thousands of independent labels rise from the ashes of the fallen major labels. As indie musicians took control of their music, they also took control of the financing and advertising their creative work. Overall, a majority of these startup record labels
Big Gigantic Opens Up Their Music Vault for Download
[av_heading heading='Music Freedom with Big Gigantic' tag='h2' style='blockquote modern-quote' size='' subheading_active='subheading_below' subheading_size='15' padding='10' color='' custom_font=''] Written by: Matthew McGuire [/av_heading] Big Gigantic, an electronica duo from Denver, has just made their entire catalog of studio recorded music free to download. This marks a trend in electronic dance music that I first noticed with Gramatik and his recorded label. Pretty Lights uses a mix of selling new material, as well as giving away several albums. I find that this method helps pay the artists for their work, at the same time, opening up the music to listening audiences within different social classes.