CS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Future Shop, Consumer Protection, Music Canada
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After the canadian content regulations came into effect in 1970, the number of canadian number-one singles on the chum charts in a 13 year period increased from 13 to 19. Music is a special event, a social fathering that had to be arranged. Music is everywhere all the time, we arrange for concerts and major musical events, but we also wake to music, shop to music, and drive to music. The recording industry that brings music to mass audiences, both the flashy stuff and everything else, is gigantic. The recording industry is concentrates in four major companies known as the big four, which have 75% of the global market. The file-sharing crisis in the early 2000s shook up the industry"s corporate landscape. Indies-independently owned record-making companies; not part of the big four. More than 250 independent labels are responsible for roughly 90% of cancon produced here in canada. Thomas edison built the first audio recorder playback machine.
