The English Music Industry

The music business, as one of the largest components of the UK's creative industries, is an essential part of the UK's culture and economy (bpi)

In fact, Britain has arguably the strongest music market in Europe in terms of sales per capita, media impact, effect on lifestyle and global influence.

Pop music is an important part of British culture, not just as an expression of Englishness, but as a indicator of the multi-cultural nature of Britain today.

In fact, pop music in the UK is a national entrepreneurial business and is part of the economic

fabric, with around half of the population making an album purchase in 2001. 90% of the music businesses are small or medium enterprises.

The UK music business is composed of rich, diverse and passionate organisations. Record companies are one part of a complex business that includes self employed individuals, small businesses and large multi-national companies.

The business can be broadly split into four sectors: recording, song writing and publishing, live music and artist management. (Industry structure, BPI)

Pb: How the English music industry and its representative groups represent an opportunity for the English business

Ou How the English music industry and its bands have turned into commodification.

The Beatles:

Finally, the most influenceable British band of all the time is without a doubt The Beatles.

The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. (Wikipedia)

For the majority of people The Beatles represent the most the British culture in all around the world

First of all The Beatles is a huge Opportunity for Liverpool: regeneration: Capital of Culture in 2008

As the birthplace of and an influence on the Beatles, Liverpool has attained symbolic significance for Beatles fans, many of whom visit the city on what they describe as a music “pilgrimage”. (Tourism, p 383 by John Shepherd)

During the mid-1990s Beatles tourism became officially recognized and supported by Liverpool City Council, which had turned to tourism and the services industries in its efforts to regenerate the city and reverse its economic decline. (Tourism, p 383 by John Shepherd)

Moreover, a business was launched that specialized on Beatles tour called Magical Mystery Tour (visiting Penny Lane, Strawberryfields, The Cavern Club, the childhood house of the Beatles…)

The Beatles brand will be the centre of a massive world-wide marketing campaign which is expected to bring £12m into Liverpool every year. (Beatles tourism trail could bring a £12m fab fortune, By Jessica Shaughnessy, 11/07/ 2005)

The city has no beaches, little sunshine and few obvious attractions. Nonetheless, more than 350,000 tourists are expected to jam the city later this month for the annual Beatles festival. Tourism officials believe The Beatles bring at least 500,000 visitors to Liverpool each year, creating demand for hotels, restaurants and pubs.

" In terms of putting Liverpool on the world map as a destination, the value of The Beatles simply cannot be calculated," said Dave Jones, director of Cavern City Tours, which runs the restored Cavern Club where The Beatles performed 292 times. "The Beatles are the bait that brings people in and lets us show them what's here."

Albert Dock tourist attraction The Beatles Story is generating hundreds of thousands of pounds for the city’s overseas visitor income.

Beatles Story also recorded a 60% rise in Chinese visitors last year, and latest figures show that, in January, more than 600 Chinese tourists visited the attraction. (Beatles Story attraction helping drive city’s tourism economy by Neil Hodgson, Liverpool Daily, 16/02/2011)

In another hand, The Beatles have turned into a commodification:

In fact, a lot of derivate product from the Beatles has been created to generates money, the most important are:

Obviously the records with 1 billion records sold all around the world.

However,

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