EMI is a major record label that produces a wide variety of music genres and has signed many famous artists over the years. It aims to appeal to all types of audiences. EMI was founded in Britain in 1931 and has a typical record label job structure including executives, A&R managers, producers, distributors, promoters, and interns. In the future, EMI may face challenges from illegal downloading cutting into profits, so it will need to address this issue to remain profitable.

1. EMI (Electric & Musical Industries) The Labels ethos is that it is out there to make money as you can from the range of music that its main focus is to reach out to all audiences and isn’t there for the music they like. EMI produce a mass variety of music and doesn’t specify on a single type of music genre. Here are some of the most known artists that are signed to EMI Katy Perry, Lily Allen, The Beatles, Coldplay, Robbie Williams.

2. EMI EMI records was formed by a British man in he 1931 and was based on Abbey rd. Within the 1940’s EMI had hired it’s first A&R managers. Emile Berliner was the first person mentioned in the history of EMI which leads to him being the key founder. Sir Edward Elgar, Sir Thomas Beecham, Arturo Toscanini and Wilhelm Furtwangler was the first few people that was signed by EMI. Now in EMI they have signed some of the most famous and well known artists globally.

3. (Electric & Musical Industries) Chief Executive office(CEO) Legal Department Vice President This EMI’s Job Structure and this structure is used throughout the music industry in all major record labels. A&R Manager Producer Distributor Sales Promotion Runner Intern

4. CEO of EMI Roger Faxon Job Title – CEO of EMI He was employed in 1994 as the senior vice president He was previously executive vice president of Lucas film Ltd. Contact – Full time and permanent. Would get paid around 401k depending on company plus benefits such as company car and jet plus insurance of many kinds. The Vice President and the Legal Department would be the people who report to him.

5. Promotions department of EMI Patrick Webster Job Title – Promotion He was employed in 2004. His previous job was working in a advertisement agency but then was offered a job in EMI promotion. He is on a full time permanent contract and would get paid 30-45 thousand a year. He would report to the label’s manager. A music promoter would need to know all the modern types of promotion this will mainly be online because more and more people buy songs and music online. The runners and interns will report to the promotion department.

6. Runner Eric Polynice Job title: Runner Was employed in September 2010. Has not much previous experience but is going to college at the moment. Is on a 6 month contract part time and would get paid £100 pound every week. He will report to anybody who needs a hand doing anything. The responsibility of a runner is to be an assistant to everyone in the company running back a fourth doing favors for the whole department which they belong to making Tea and Coffee and gets people they’re lunch the reason someone would become a runner is to have the chance to work your way from a runner to something above that. They have nobody reporting to them as they are at the bottom of the hierarchy.

7. What the future holds for EMI As most people are aware, major record labels are loosing out on a lot of money which is being lost due to online sites where you can download nearly any song in the world for free, this considered illegal and breaches the distribution laws for the labels. Since people don’t get caught most of the time. Illegal downloading is seen as the new way to get music as it’s 100% free. The majors will eventually have to find a way to crack down on this and start to make people more aware that it is illegal to get the music this way. If illegal music downloads become even more popular then eventually the majors may start to make a loss and not a profit therefore meaning big music companies like EMI could become bankrupt. If EMI was to try do something about this problem they could with help from police start to shutdown sites which are fueling the web with illegal downloads. They could also make people more aware more of the consequences of illegally downloading. They could caught by a police scan only if they are suspected by being signed up to a website which has been caught distributing music form the label.