An Exploratory Study of Music Industry Life Cycles: Selected Country Artists
Date of Graduation
Spring 1998
Degree
Master of Business Administration
Department
Management and Information Technology
Committee Chair
Mary Coulter
Abstract
Many decision makers in the entertainment, and particulary the music industry feel that there is no way to predict which performers will be successful. In addition, there is often little known about properly repositioning performers after they have reached the maturity stage. Regular consumer products have been researched extensively, however, and the strategies and principles that work for a typical consumer product might be applicable for any other industry that adhered to the most basic business principles. One such principle is the product life cycle. This thesis puts industry data about album sales and airplay into charts and then compares these figures with what a typical product life cycle curve should look like. This charted data did reflect commonly held ideas about product life cycles and is significant because it shed light on career strategies for performers in a field that has had little academic research.
Subject Categories
Business Administration, Management, and Operations
Copyright
© Deborah Elane McDonald
Recommended Citation
McDonald, Deborah Elane, "An Exploratory Study of Music Industry Life Cycles: Selected Country Artists" (1998). MSU Graduate Theses. 3083.
https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/3083
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