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             The following is a table of some Economics data of Popular Music in 1996
             Netherlands United States United Kingdom
             Revenues recordables, gross (US $) 660,100,000 12,297,700,000 2,709,800,000
             Total Sales, recordables (pieces) 38,000,000 1,044,800,000 234,500,000
             Sales Recordables, per capita (US $) 42.6 46.3 46.4
             Concerts (Dutch guilders) 550,000,000 n.a n.a
             (Source: National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), 1997. International Survey Of Music Publishing Revenues. New York: NMPA.)
             The popular music industry in the late 1990s was dominated by a small number of integrated corporations with headquarters in Europe, the United States and Japan. This music market starts simply with an artist and moves along through many steps to the consumer. Everything has its start when a musician presents his music to a music manager, and if he/she finds the music promising, a contract is signed between the two, recordings are made and a marketing plan is drafted for the different consumers. Then the final product is introduced to the public through many mediums: super markets, music stores, on-line stores and others. The major 7 Record Companies that control the music market, with their nation of origin and reported 1990 sales are: EMI (Thorn U.K., $1.88 billion), Warner ( Time Warn
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