Wednesday 9 January 2013

institution analysis

institution analysis



Universal Music Group (UMG) is a major global music company owned by French media conglomerate Vivendi. It is the largest of the big three music companies.

The UMG global corporate headquarters are located in Santa Monica, CaliforniaDef Jam Recordings is an American record label, focused primarily on hip hop and urban music, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as a part of The Island Def Jam Music Group.

Universal Music Group co-developed Vevowarner music group will allow for free, ad-supported streaming of music videos and other music content. The music videos are shown in better quality than the original ones on YouTube.

Universal Music Group owns Universal Music Publishing Group, which is the second largest music publishing company in the world.

Universal has some of the biggest music artists signed to them such as Rihanna , Eminem , Stevie Wonder, Justin Beiber, lady gaga and had Tupac Shakur.


billboard
he world's premier music publication, Billboard has served the entertainment business since 1894. Beginning as a weekly for the billposting and advertising business, Billboard and its popular music charts have evolved into the primary source of information on trends and innovation in music, serving music fans, artists, top executives, tour promoters, publishers, radio programmers, lawyers, retailers, digital entrepreneurs and many others.

As Billboard's consumer-faced online home, Billboard.com features an extensive array of searchable, playable charts, breaking music news, artist interviews and exclusives, news, video and more. Launched in 1995 as Billboard Online, Billboard.com now attracts ten million unique visitors each month in more than 100 countries and has become the digital destination for popular music.

Billboard is headquartered in New York with bureaus in Los Angeles and Miami, and has editorial correspondents in major cities around the globe

billboard is an international news weekly magazine devoted to music and the music industry

The Billboard Music Award is an honor given by Billboard, the preeminent publication covering the music business
ard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States





MTV, originally an initialism of Music Television, is an American cable television channel based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs.Today MTV primarily broadcasts a variety of reality and scripted television programs targeted at adolescents and young adults.

Formed in July 1999, MTV Networks Music is the world’s leading online music entertainment company, with 22 worldwide music destinations on the Web. MTV Networks Music Web sites bring original and innovative online music and entertainment programming to each network. MTV Networks Music also includes 14 international destinations throughout Europe, Asia, and Latin America

The original purpose of MTV was to be "Music Television", playing music videos 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, guided by on-air personalities known as VJs, or video jockeys. The original taglines of the channel were "You'll never look at music the same way again," and "On cable. In stereo." Although the original MTV channel no longer plays music videos 24/7, several of its spin-off channels do so, including MTV Hits and MTV Jams. In addition, viewers can play music videos on-demand at MTV.com. MTV continues to support a broad selection of music videos on its international channels as well.