Making It in the Music Business: The Business and Legal Guide for Songwriters and Performers by Lee Wilson

I have to point out that a book written in 1999, the music market was controlled by record companies with their headquarters throughout Europe, Canada and Latin America and links with the East.
Madonna, George Michael and Michael Jackson were struggling with their record labels and trying to get rid of 'Sony Music' in which they considered the real hell, and for those who do not know, any sound produced inside a label belongs to the label and does not to the artist.

In 18 years everything changed, in 1999 there was neither Youtube, Spotify, iTunes appeared only two years later and most of the people that dwell the globe, did not even have internet in their homes, which was high priced. At that time, people even listened to the radio, today we plug our flash pen-drives into our cars, so we do not have to hear those annoying commercials of those boring radio announcers who scream and speak very fast, pen-drives helped many people from L.A get away from hip-hop.

The most incredible is that in the same year that this book was written (1999), 'Napster' was launched, which has undergone a huge process for damaging the record companies, that have begun to drop their CDs sales to date, in a fall that has never had a variation of increase. Not even today we buy virgin CDs to record at home.

Today 18 years later, people do not see TV as they used to, less than 5% in rich countries listen to FM radio. And worse, we can not predict what's coming 10 years from now.

Or read this book to understand how things worked in the past.

BTW, this book was from an old big pack: '87 Music Business Books' 1.02 GB