CHAPTER 1

Marketing Concepts and Definitions

Tom Hutchison

SELLING RECORDED MUSIC

The concept of selling recorded music has been around for more than a century. While the actual storage medium for music has evolved, from cylinders to vinyl discs, magnetic tape, digital discs, and now downloads, the basic notion has remained the same: a musical performance is captured to be played back at a later time, at the convenience of the consumer. Music fans continue to enjoy the ability to develop music collections, whether in physical compact disc format or in collections of digital files on their computer hard drives. Consumers also ...

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