1. Music Production

2. What Does The Industry Area Do?
Music production is a key area of the music
industry as it deals with the physical or digital
production of songs.
This is a field of the industry where is deals with
the creation of the music and sometimes the
finance (such as the cost of studio time).

3. What is/are the product(s)?
The product made from music production is
actually the music itself and the format it is
released on, these can CD, MP3, Vinyl and tape.
a key and most well know part of music
production is music producers working with the
artist to create the music. The producers also
work with the audio engineers to try and make
the music sound as good as possible so they can
sell as many of the product as possible

4. What factors of price do they have to
consider?
Some of the factors of the price they have to
consider is money to pay people this could be to
pay for music producers, audio engineers or studio
equipment etc. Also have to consider the cost of
paying to have the music put on to albums rather
than singles (as you get more money from albums
as people are more inclined to buy albums with lots
of songs that are cheaper than expensive singles
which they get less songs) this would mean they
make more profit.

5. What and how do they promote their
product/service?
There are many ways of promoting the product
is through these following things (these are the
most common)…
• Billboards
• Magazines
• Radio
• Internet

6. Who Is their target market?
The target market for music production is
everyone as the aim to sell as many products as
possible if this means producing a pop or a
metal song they will to get the most profit.
For example if the producer is working with a
power pop band then their target market will be
the bands current fans but it is also people who
are into that genre who may not yet be fans.

7. Where do they do their business?
• The usual place for their business is in a
recording studio as this is where the music is
produced. It can also be at a live performance
to get a live album of the band/artist

8. What market research do they
undertake?
• The main market research they perform is
seeing what music is the most popular/has
the largest audience this is so they can try a
make a large profit from producing the music
because if they do not see much of a future in
that genre they will not work on it as it could
be a waste of time and money they could have
used on another genre/band/artist.