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major label

Term used in connection with any of the five record companies that dominate the music industry.Sony, Universal, BMG, EMI and Warner (and their innumerable subsidiaries) account for over 90% of the music sold in the United States and up to 80% globally. The majors are typically characterised as greedy, cynical, bandwagon-jumping and litigious (see also RIAA).Not all artists signing to major labels suck, but the majority do fall into one of two categories:(1) those plucked from obscurity, who are given some songs, handed over to a stylist and aggressively marketed(2) those with previous careers and original material, who agree to remove all traces of innovation from their music, are rejected by their old fans as sellouts and are aggressively marketed.Regardless of their popularity, most will be financially crippled by the label's dubious accounting and will be dropped the moment sales start to falter.

major label

by qupert on Nov 05, 2003 01:54:25

Corporate theives who get 10% of any artist's salary for "breakage"- a term that was once defined as records that would break (cars stolen, crashed etc) but now exists only in theory as cds dont break when a driver goes over a pot hole.

Example:
Major labels suck.

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