WorksheetsComm 346 Music Industry
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Who invented the first phonograph that recorded and replayed sound in 1877?
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Edison
Nikola Tesla
Samuel Morse
What major label first started making disc records?
Columbia Records
Sony Music Entertainment
CBS Records
MCA Music
When did digital media take over vinyl records' popularity?
1960s
1970s
2000s
1980s
What decade was the MP3 first introduced?
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
"A market situation in which each of the few producers affects but does not control the market." What is this called?
Monopoly
Oligopoly
Anthrology
Poligoly
Which is NOT one of the 3 companies that controlled the music industry in the early 20th century until the 1950s?
Edison
Columbia
Sony
Victor
Which genre helped break the tight oligopoly in the 1950s?
Rock ’n’ roll's independent record labels
Jazz bands and their music associations
Acapella groups and their businesses
By 2016, only three companies controlled the majority of sales. Which is NOT one of the companies?
Sony Music Entertainment
Warner Music
ABC Records
Universal Music Group
One of the biggest violators of pirated music was the peer-to-peer file-sharing service named....
Limewire
Napster
Kazaa
Spotify
Currently, what has had a major impact on the decline of CD sales and iTunes?
Paid subscription streaming
YouTube
Podcasts
Vinyl records
The 360-deals, sometimes referred to as “multiple rights”, was established by major music companies as a way to...
give the record label a percentage of the artists’ income from record & merch sales
give the artists full ownership of their sales.
generate revenue for the record label based only off of ticket sales.
Music festivals have become significantly more profitable than traditional concerts for promoters. True or False?
True
False
