Music Labels

Music labels are were it all starts for the artists and their careers!

UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP

Universal Music Group is the worlds largest music content company with market leading positioning in recorded music, music publishing and merchandising.  Universal Music is the UK's leading music company and home to artists from Take That and Florence and The Machine to Mumford to Mumford and Sons and the Rolling Stones

Some of the featured Record Labels at Universal are:

• The Island Def Jam Music Group
• Universal Republic Records
• Decca Label Group
• The Verve Music Group

Some of Universals featured signed artists are:

• All American Rejects
• Justin Bieber 
• The Black Eyed Peas
• Eminem
• Enrique Iglesias
• Metallica
• Mumford and Sons
• Kaiser Cheifs
• La Roux
• Kelly Rowland
• Rihanna
• One Rpeublic
• Owl City
• Lady Gaga
• Kid Cudi
• The Killers
• and MANY MANY more

SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

Sony Music is the second largest record company in the world with offices all around the world.

Featured Record labels at Sony Music are:

• Columbia Records
• Epic Records 
• Legacy Recordings
• Masterworks
• Provident Label Group
• RCA Records
• Verity Records

Some of the featured artists signed to Sony Music are:

• Labrinth
• Michael Jackson
• Usher
• Rita Ora
• Carrie Underwood
• Karmin 
• Fiona Apple
• Dry The River
• Rebecca Ferguson
• Paloma Faith
• Paul Simon
• Hot Chelle Rae
• and MANY more

WARNER MUSIC GROUP

With its broad roster of new stars and legendary artists, Warner Music Group is home to a collection of the best known record labels in the music industry.  True to its roots, and dating back to the founding days of three of recorded music's most important labels Atlantica, Elektra and Warner Bros - Warner Music Group remains a creative, entrepreneurial and artist focused music company.

Featured Record labels at WMG are:

• Atlantic Record Group
• Independant Label Group
• Rhino Entertainment
• Warner Bros Records Inc
• Warner Music Nashville

Some of the featured signed to WMG are:

• Cee Lo Green
• B.O.B
• Christina Perri
• Outasight
• Jason Mraz
• Bruno Mars
• Frank Sinatra
• Green Day
• Ramones
• My Chemical Romance
• Kid Rock
• Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Fashion within the Music Industry 

Fashion plays a huge part in the music industry. We have the labels of their clothes shot out everywhere from being papped when out shopping to their music videos and interviews in magazines. Fashion is almost as important to the singers as their music. Both fashion and music are always evolving, artists like Chris Brown, Rihanna,Lady Gaga and many more are constantly breaking barriers in fashion and due to this I see many imitations and similarities how young people dress and look today.

 Chris Brown caused a major uproar among teenage boys when he died his hair bright blonde, of course Chris pulled this off but not many can.

One look that became really popular lately for college girls is the casual look. In late 2011 Rihanna went to an award show in a blazer and dressy trousers.Many girls lately are wearing fitted blazers with baggy tops and more colours.

Beyonce has also become more daring with her style lately rocking the bright colours and messy hair look.

 Artists have also begun to produce their own fashion lines alongside their music careers such as Justin Timberlake, Gwen Stefani, Victoria Beckham, P.Diddy, Jay-Z and many more but these are some of the most successful clothing lines.



 These are common examples of how chart music has changed and how anything can now be in the charts from indie bands like The Milk to Dance Music such as Swedish House Mafia.

I have chosen Chart Music as my genre for my music magazine as I feel there is a gap in the market for this kind of magazine especially for teeange students as an audience as you would see on the shelves in shops music magazines such as 'NME' 'KERRANG' and magazines liuke 'VIBE'. There are a few exisisting 'POP' magazines such as 'Top of The Pops' but this is targeted at a younger audience due to colours and the language used within the magazine. Therefore I am going to research thoroughly why chart music, which is now ANY music that is downloaded, is hardly advertised and also see if this is the same in the US. Finally creating a Chart magazine.

Main task (Music Magazine)

 

- The front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine.
- All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate, minimum of FOUR images.

Evaluation

My final front cover was produced by a lot of research to find out the best way to plan out what I was going to include into my college magazine. I used many resources on the internet such as Google and existing As Media student’s magazine covers to see what the magazine were to look like for example the masthead, sell lines and images. I went on to use myself an image of a student from Wyke carrying a folder and smiling to give the audience a sense of how students feel when studying at Wyke. For my background I used an image of Wyke its self from the front of the Oak building to show students who may not attend Wyke but want to in the future, what Wyke exactly looks like, but this also helped to make the sell lines stand out. Also instead of using a plain background, which I was intending to do at first, students who attend Wyke would know straight away which college the magazine was referring to. I took into account that students also don’t have a lot of money therefore didn’t use a barcode on my front cover as the ‘COLLEGE Wyke Lifestyle’ magazine would be given out every other month to students at Wyke and Year 11’s to keep them up to date of what is going on in and around college.

The target audience I am aiming for is students who attend Wyke and year 11’s as it will inform the students who attend Wyke what is going on in and around college and keep them up to date with the latest. Whilst for Year 11’s who are looking to go to a college in the September arriving they could find out all the goings on at Wyke aswell as how study works and Wykes expectations which could persuade them to attend Wyke rather than a college they might regret. I believe my magazine appeals to this audience as it’s a full front cover with all different things going on for girls and boys the use of Wyke as the front covers background could also connote as you are reading into Wykes background as that’s what the magazine is all about. The use of purple for the masthead is the Wyke colour for its logos up around the college so therefore I knew this would be a recognisable colour to students who already attend Wyke with the masthead being big and bold to stand out and catch my target audience eye if were to be sat next to them on a desk as such.

The denotations of the colour purple I used for the masthead and a few sell lines are the fact it is Wykes logo colour and therefore I used this to be a recognisable colour but this could also connote as a mysterious colour which could lead the magazine to be mysterious and want to pull the reader in to read more than just the front cover. The student is carrying a purple folder which is also the same colour as the masthead but with the folder being purple this could also connote as a mystery in the folder and the way she is holding it in a secure way for no one else to see but if you study at Wyke you can be a part of the mystery. The student is also wearing black on top but red on the bottom this could connote as the love she has for her studies at Wyke and enjoyment of the college. The connotations of using  Wyke from the front of the building but not the inside is also linked to the mystery of you wanting to know and see more especially if you aren’t a student at Wyke but are a year 11 who has never visited before this could be seen as unless you come to visit and see around Wyke you won’t quite get inside but the reader will want to see inside the building but this could also connote as wanting to see inside the magazine and also the entrance of Wyke is the entrance of the magazine. I also used a slogan “the guide to everything Wyke and wonderful’ this is also fairy tale like and again has that pinch of mystery to it and gets the reader to ask themselves why is Wyke wonderful?

I took many pictures of Wyke and a student who attends Wyke which I used and some which I didn’t use. I made sure the student was on a white background when taking the pictures of her as I cut round her and placed her in the bottom left hand corner  next to ‘TGIF why Fridays are now even better at Wyke’ all students hate Fridays and are always dreading them as it’s the beginning of the weekend and the last thing they want is college but because the sell line of the Fridays are even better at Wyke I felt placing her next to this sell line and smiling represents how you can now feel at Wyke which brings my target audience into the magazine by wanting to know why. I used photoshop to create my final front cover taking ideas off a draft I did in photoshop before starting my final front cover which I used transform to change the scale of the images such as making my image of Wyke from the front of the building bigger to become the background of my magazine and also cutting out the image of the student which I also used the blur tool on. I went round the edges of the student with the blur tool to define the edges from cutting out, then when zooming out you are unable to see that it has been cut out and appears to have no zig zag edges but defined and smooth edges this helped to make the magazine more professional and less like it shouldn’t be there. I kept saving all of my drafts and work as jpegs so that I could upload these onto my blog for people to see.

Box Plan of Contents Page

Final Front Cover