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Comm 346 Music Industry

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who invented the first phonograph that recorded and replayed sound in 1877?

a)

Benjamin Franklin

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Nikola Tesla

d)

Samuel Morse

2.

What major label first started making disc records?

a)

Columbia Records

b)

Sony Music Entertainment

c)

CBS Records

d)

MCA Music

3.

When did digital media take over vinyl records' popularity?

a)

1960s

b)

1970s

c)

2000s

d)

1980s

4.

What decade was the MP3 first introduced?

a)

1970s

b)

1980s

c)

1990s

d)

2000s

5.

"A market situation in which each of the few producers affects but does not control the market." What is this called?

a)

Monopoly

b)

Oligopoly

c)

Anthrology

d)

Poligoly

6.

Which is NOT one of the 3 companies that controlled the music industry in the early 20th century until the 1950s?

a)

Edison

b)

Columbia

c)

Sony

d)

Victor

7.

Which genre helped break the tight oligopoly in the 1950s?

a)

Rock ’n’ roll's independent record labels

b)

Jazz bands and their music associations

c)

Acapella groups and their businesses

8.

By 2016, only three companies controlled the majority of sales. Which is NOT one of the companies?

a)

Sony Music Entertainment

b)

Warner Music

c)

ABC Records

d)

Universal Music Group

9.

One of the biggest violators of pirated music was the peer-to-peer file-sharing service named....

a)

Limewire

b)

Napster

c)

Kazaa

d)

Spotify

10.

Currently, what has had a major impact on the decline of CD sales and iTunes?

a)

Paid subscription streaming

b)

YouTube

c)

Podcasts

d)

Vinyl records

11.

The 360-deals, sometimes referred to as “multiple rights”, was established by major music companies as a way to...

a)

give the record label a percentage of the artists’ income from record & merch sales

b)

give the artists full ownership of their sales.

c)

generate revenue for the record label based only off of ticket sales.

12.

Music festivals have become significantly more profitable than traditional concerts for promoters. True or False?

a)

True

b)

False