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The intuitional roots of the antagonism between many popular music artists and their record labels
It seems that the world of popular music is divided into two camps; the artists i. ... those who make the music and their record labels who promote and publish it. It has also become clear that it is a divide that has been growing larger for some time and in culture obsessed with the lives of pop and rock stars it appears not a day goes by that the press dont makes mention of a new dispute between a music artist and their record label, and in this essay I will attempt to outline and examine the causes of the conflicts that have plagued the history of popular music.
Throughout the history of popular music there has always been an uneasy tension between musical artists and record labels, by their very nature they are two opposing forces, the Artist who deal with the creative side and produce music (in essence their art) and the record label who deal the business side giving the artist an advance to make their music which the label then packages, advertises and distributes. It is not difficult to see how the conflict between the musicians interests as an artist (although this is not always the case as in manufactured bands that are created by record labels holding auditions for singers based on image as well the quality of their voices in order to make money of teenage audiences) and the record labels needs to increase profit margins arise, more often than not it seems that few record labels hirings and firings of artist have nothing to do with music at all and are solely about money. The most notable example of this is in 2001 when record giant EMI paid a reported £18 million payoff to pop diva Mariah Carey, the biggest-selling female singer of the last decade, to prematurely terminate her £70 million, five album, contract after 2001s Glitter album sold 2 million copies (8 million less than what would have been needed to pay for the cost of the album) as a result EMI saw to cut its losses by paying of Mariah Carey rather than risk losing a more substantial figure.
Approximate Word count = 1663
Approximate Pages = 6.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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