Music Industry

The music industry is dominated by dominated by four multi national corporations: 
- Universal 

- Sony Music 

- Warner Brothers

- EMI

The Majority of these are backed by conglomerates with stakes in other vindustries such as; films, TV and Electronics.

Major- Independents
This is a series of smaller subsidiary companies in order to reach different kinds of audiences in different kinds of genre. 
- Columbia 
- Island
-Syco
-Virgin

Independents
There are a massive number of small companies with hardly any or no financial connections to the majors.
these companies concentrate on smaller number of acts within a specialised niches in the industries. An example of a highly successful independent in 'Domino Records'