1. Recorded Music Industry

2. "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson

3. History

5. The Acoustic Era Struggle for standardization Mass duplication Playback only 1906=reification 1918, patents run out o Indie competition Music sells hardware Passive music cons.

7. The Electrical Era Hardware sales=music sales Increased consolidation Non-vertically integrated Power shift, “Empires of Sound” Tape/LP/45. Standardization Indies and big box stores Technology/production power to distribution power

8. The Tape Era Hardware sales secondary to music sales Tapes as consumer empowerment Piracy= Music circulated outside of market "Records sold like toothpaste..." Big 6 control 80%, lose touch of audience

9. The Tangible Digital Era Philips/Sony, CD Curb piracy, $$$ format Back to the disc format STANDARDIZATION GE/Sony/Thorn, 1900s! CD cuts costs, price =

12. Some Numbers Worldwide $17B market for recorded music Big 4= 80% of US sales, 70% globally 2009: Album sales fell to 373.9 million from 450.5 million in 2007 2009: while digital album sales rose 16% to a record 76.4 million units in 2009 Digital music grows $363M, iTune 25% US Less current music, more catalog music

13. Industry Music groups, record label groups, labels Musicians Recording Artists Song Writers Distributors Retail Publishers Rights Organizations Trade Association Consumers

14. The Majors 80% of U.S. market at production level, 95% at distribution level. 2008 U.S market valued at $8.3B ($14.3B/$37B in 2000) 70% of global market. 30.2% 9.2% 20.55% 28.58.7%

16. 3.3% $200M 2.6% $35M $25M 2.7% The Independents

18. RIAA Board Mitch Bainwol (RIAA) Victoria Bassetti (EMI Recorded Music) Colin Finkelstein (EMI Recorded Music) Bill Hearn (EMI Christian Music Group) Deirdre McDonald (SonyBMG) Joe Galante (SonyBMG) Kevin Kelleher (SonyBMG) Rob Stringer (SonyBMG) Julie Swidler (SonyBMG Music) Luke Wood (Interscope Records) Jeff Harleston (Universal Music Group) Zach Horowitz (Universal Music Group) Mel Lewinter (Universal Motown Republic Group) Craig Kallman (The Atlantic Group) Tom Whalley (Warner Bros Records) Michael Fleisher (Warner Music Group) Kevin Liles (Warner Music Group) Bob Cavallo (Buena Vista Music) Glen Barros (Concord Music Group) Mike Curb (Curb Records) Michael Koch (E1/Koch Entertainment) Tom Silverman (Tommy Boy Entertainment) Steve Bartels (Island Records) Alan Meltzer (Wind Up Records)

19. RIAA Cont’d Its mission is to foster a business and legal climate that supports and promotes our members' creative and financial vitality. Its members are the record companies that comprise the most vibrant national music industry in the world. RIAA members create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 90% of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in the United States.