Study Skills - AS Media 8

Please take note of these. They are skills you should be developing and applying in every lesson.

Lesson 4 - Niche audiences, physical media and the shopping experience - Rough Trade & Soul Jazz.

A quick tour of Rough Trade East

Soul Jazz Records

Lesson 3 - Self-Distribution

Spinrilla, DatPiff My Mixtapes Apps Offer Illegal Access to Music

Are there dark clouds on the horizon for Soundcloud?

Indie music service Bandcamp reaches $100m of payments to artists

STUDENT WORK
Soundcloud
   

Bandcamp

Datpiff

How self-distribution benefit artists? Answer with reference to at least 2 of the case studies we have looked at.

Lesson 2: Media Conglomerates / Simon Cowell & Syco Entertainment

HW: How has Simon Cowell used synergy across a variety of media platforms to become one of Britain's richest men?

Music Industry 2016 - Lesson 1

Case Study 1

Fill out the above grid, adding definitions of the key terms and as much information as you can find about Kanye's new album. 

Spotify and streaming

Thom Yorke Calls Spotify the "last fart of a decaying corpse"
 

This article contains a summary of the statistics of Spotify royalties and some useful summaries of the arguments, from both sides

Lesson 5 - Rough Trade/Soul Jazz: alternatives and independent labels

A quick tour of Rough Trade East

Soul Jazz Records, Soho

Krept & Konan sign to a major label