Music listening preferences can provide insight into a person's interests and personality. Record labels come in different sizes, from major international corporations to smaller independent labels. Major labels promote and distribute music on a large scale, while independent labels have less financial resources but similar goals of producing and promoting music.

2. Music is based upon the personality. The type of music a person listens to can be seen through the way they dress, speak, act and the type of surroundings. You can tell what people’s interests are just by looking through their ipod.

3. Universal Music Group EMI Group Warner Music Group Sony Music Entertainment

5. Independents are usually small independent record labels that have no financial connections to the Major record labels. Majors and independents are very similar because they produce music but are very different in the way they promote it. Record labels can be small and independent, or they could be part of a large international media group, somewhere in between.

6. Manufactured programmes with live feeds. Music Television becoming more popular. The Internet and the risk of downloads Download programmes such as Limewire

7. Promotes a specific single and, normally, an album Promotes a specific artist or band Creates, adapts or feeds into a ‘star image’ Entertains as product in its own right Reinforces, adapts or undermines the ‘meanings’ of a song

8. Warner Music Group Warner Music Group owns some of the world's best known record labels. Some of the Warner Music Group labels include: Atlantic Records Bad Boy Roadrunner Records Asylum Records East West Records Rhino Records Sub Pop Records Rykodisc Records Reprise Records

9. Universal Music Group Some of these subsidiary labels are among the best selling and most recognizable names in music in their own right such as : Interscope Geffen Motown Def Jam Island So So Def Roc-a-fella Verve

10. Sony Music Entertainment There are more than 20 labels that are owned and distributed by the corporation. Sony BMG labels include some of the biggest names in the business, like: Epic Jive Columbia RCA Arista LaFace Zomba Music Group Legacy J Records Red Music Distribution

11. EMI Group EMI licenses and distributes albums from a significant and ever changing number of independent labels such as : Positiva Records Stateside Records EMI Records Capitol Records Nashville EMI Hemisphere Liberty Records Parlophone