Music Audience Institutions

Universal musical group• is the biggest selling record label of music.•It as a vast amount of label imprints including island def jam music group, Inters cope Geffen A&M Records.•It has many international artist like Akon, Gwen Stefani, Kanye west and rhiannna.•UMG owns the world's largest jazz recording company, The Verve Music Group.

•These are some of the label imprints major artists, Gwen Stefani as had two solo albums including a number 1 single. Whilst kanye west has had kanye has had 3 albums 1 went to number 1 and received countless grammy nominations and a smash hit number 1 single “gold digger” and “stronger” .

•Another two famous artists are rhiannna and akon who between them have had 3 albums including a number one album and singles.

•Rhiannna is also a superstar with 4 albums all hitting the top ten including 3 number 1 singles.

•The overall album sales for 2009 was 373.9 million which is significantly lower than the digital sales which were at 1.16 billion

•Also universal breakout artist 2009 was lady gaga who had the fourth biggest selling album that year.

EMI•EMI is the third biggest musical groups. I has two divisions:

•EMI Music and EMI Music Publishing.

•It also has various label imprints like Capitol virgin, with artists that range from Alicia keys Britney spears and Outkast.

•EMI publishing is concerned with the business side of the music the rights of the recordings and artists. Its catalogue of music biggest composition and songwriters ranges from Beyonce, jay z, Alicia keys and Amy winehouse.

•Also the founders of EMI were responsible for the invention of stereo recording

Cold play have released four studio albums, they have had a number 1 hit single and won a Grammy and brit award.

Robbie Williams former member of take that Since 1996 he has released 7 #1 hit albums and 22 top 10 hits singles. Lastly the Rolling stones one of the greatest rock bands and in the 60s they were second only to the Beatles they have released over 50 albums and compliments and sell outs tours.

Sony music group•Second biggest musical group with record sales.

• With label imprints including Arista, Columbia, Epic, J, Jive

•It boasts artists such as beyonce Alicia keys and Britney spears.

•It’s a merger of SONY music and BMG music. They are also responsible for 25% of music sales

Whilst Alicia keys has had four albums including number 1 selling album,collectivily one 9 Grammys including a number one single with “No one

•Britney spears has sold over 83 million records world wide a string of top ten hits and number one singles. Also has had 4 albums got to number one consecutively. Whilst Alicia keys has had four albums including number 1 selling album,collectivily one 9 Grammys including a number one single with “No one”

•Lastly outkast The album's 2 initial singles "The Way You Move" and "Hey Ya!" were released nearly simultaneously. Both reached #1 on the pop they earned a Grammy award

Warner music group

•The Warner Music Group is the fourth major record label in music sales. Its label imprints include Atlantic records and bad boy.

•The Warner Music Group affiliated publishing company, Warner Chappell Music is arguably one of the most powerful publishing companies in the world, if not THE most powerful.

•Some of the artists signed to this label are Madonna. Greenday, and Toni Braxton

•Madonna is the ultimate Pop Queen. She has several hit albums under her belt numerous number ones and 9 Grammy awards including hits “like a prayer” and vogue

•Green day have released five albums including the hits dookie which sold over 15million records and American idiot, have also won 4 Grammys.

•Toni Braxton 4 albums including the number ones from her debut album secrets she also has won total of 6 grammys.