Research into the Industry (record company, artist)

Research into the artist- 

The artist that I am planning to use has not yet been signed by a record company. The artist is from the United States and I found her songs on www.unsigned.com. 

The solo artist is called Amanda Kaletsky. The genre of her music is pop, soul and indie. Amanda Kaletsky is a singer/song writer. Amanda has sold over 2000 copies of her songs and is regularly on the radio.Amanda trained as a classical violinist from the age of four. At the age of 13, she broadened her focus by learning guitar and piano, and began developing her vocal skills with the nationally recognized Elm City Girls Choir. Armed with years of classical training and non-classical influences, Amanda eventually found a personal balance in singing/songwriting. Source

Research into the 'big four' record companies- 

"Record label" is a term originally coined to describe the physical label on a vinyl record, which would display the manufacturer's name. Over time, record labels have developed into big companies that brand and promote music. The current music market is dominated by five of the biggest record labels. These big companies are known as major labels, in contrast to the smaller independent labels which, between them, have a one-fifth to one-quarter share of the U.S. music market.

Universal Music Group

• Universal Music Group is the biggest record label.
• Universal Music group has a market share of almost one-third overall. 
• Universal Music group either owns or has a significant share in labels including Interscope, Geffen, A&M, Island Def Jam Music Group, Decca and V2. 
• Universal Music Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of French media conglomerate Vivendi. 

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Sony Music Entertainment

• Sony Music Entertainment is based in Japan 
• It approximately has one-quarter market share in the U.S
• Ranking as the second-largest of the major record labels
• Sony Music Entertainment owns labels including Columbia, Epic, RCA and Jive.

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Warner Music Group

• Warner Music Group has a 15% percent share of the US market
• Warner Music Group is the third-largest record label
• Warner Music Group was previously part of Time Warner
• Warner Music Group owns labels including Atlantic Records Group and Rhino Entertainment.
• At the end of 2008, negotiations between WMG and YouTube.com broke down with the result that WMG moved to have all videos by its artists removed from YouTube.com.

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EMI

• EMI is based in the U.K
• EMI Group has a U.S. market share of approximately one-tenth. 
• In the 1990s, many British popular bands were signed to EMI. 
• Now the label is branching out into newer genres such as "grime," with the signing of U.K. rapper Dizzee Rascal.

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It is highly unlikely that Amanda Kaletsky will get signed by one of the 'big four' as they have so much control and ownership of the record industry market. There are smaller more independent record companies situated in the US, for example Sweatshop Studios located in New York could sign Amanda. Sweatshop Studios signs artist from any genre and tries to turn their 'raw talent into professional attractive artist'. 

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