Music industry starter

Music industry uses apps to promote 

Shazam links to artists 

Tells artist this is what people listen to 

Music is now listening to us and giving us what we want 

Makes the music audience go up in certain genre 

Release a song with a shazam tag to get the song out there and give the people the chance to hear it and get it even though they're not promoted by companies 

With the growth of streaming services, digital music sales are down this year by an estimate of 13%. 

Shazam promotes the use of buying songs from iTunes so they work together to get people to spend money

Other apps- 

YouTube 

Spotify 

Soundcloud

Google play store 

the majors

The big 4 

EMI

UNIVERSAL 

SONY

WARNER 

They own 67% of the market and are therefore media conglomerates because they own large numbers of companies in various mass media such as a television, radio, publishing, movies and Internet 

They Have a lot of power of what music gets used in games and films etc.