Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 3
Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Diploma in Music Business (Record Label) (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits42
- Units in this qualification39
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Assist with budget setting within a record label contextReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the financial considerations that apply to different types of music
- Plan and maintain budgets
- Obtain authorization for purchasing and expenditure
- Understand the different source of royalties in the music business
- Assist in administering and distributing performance royalties
Balance Business Needs and Personal LifeReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Review business and private life priorities
- Achieve a work-life balance
- Manage expectations and obtain positive support in balancing business needs and personal life
Carry Out Plans for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Implement plans in a business
- Monitor business plans
- Evaluate and revise business plans
Carry out Banking for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the types of banking facilities available for a business
- Open and operate a bank account for a business
- Monitor the operation of a business bank account
Check what Customers Need from a BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Research a market to identify the customers for the business
- Analyse markets and customer needs
- Align customer needs to business targets
Contribute to assessing the impact of emerging technology on the music industryReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use different types of equipment relating to emerging music developments
- Be able assess and make recommendations on the implications of emerging music developments
Contribute to the preparation and management of artist agreements and contractsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the negotiation and preparation of contracts, agreements, clearances and processes
- Identify issues of compliance and non-compliance
- Communicate issues of legal significance appropriately within the company
Decide on a Business LocationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the factors affecting the location of a business
- Evaluate different business location for a business
- Identify a location which will meet the needs of a business
Define the Product or Service of a BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Define the product or service of a business
- Charge the right price for the product or service of a business
- Set targets for sales and distribution of the product or service of a business
Evaluate music and assist with music selection and compilationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the recording and release process
- Plan and administer music selection procedures
- Communicate and network effectively within and outside the company to inform the selection of music
- Promote selected music within and outside the company
Identify and recommend music with commercial potentialReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Support the development of music products with commercial potential
- Communicate with artists and colleagues effectively
- Articulate why artists/writers are artistically right for a company
Identify development and repertoire opportunities for artistsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Select promotional routes for different pieces of music
- Develop productive working relationships with artists and colleagues
- Advocate repertoire developments with artists and colleagues
Identify new opportunities and revenue streams for the music industryReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of industry and different trading formats
- Identify business opportunities in the music industry
- Propose business opportunities in the music industry
- Prepare and submit funding applications in the music industry
Keep Financial RecordsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of financial records in running a business
- Understand how financial information is recorded in a business
- Select an accounts management system to support running a business
- Review the effectiveness of an accounts management system for a business
Keeping Up to Date with Current Legislation in a BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Comply with current legal requirements in running a business
- Set terms and conditions in a business agreements and contracts that meet legal requirements
Manage Own Time and Work EffectivenessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate own work effectiveness
- Set targets to improve own time management skills
- Monitor time management skills and own work effectiveness
Manage and market own freelance servicesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Market own services
- Manage own performance
- Manage own systems, accounts and records
- Manage own contracts
Market and sell music releasesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop ideas about marketing a business
- Analyse statistics and data to support marketing ideas
- Work with products
- Work with the sales team
Monitor music press coverageReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Respond and react to press enquiries
- Maintain contact information
- Co-ordinate press activity
- Review and research press activity
Negotiate with music outletsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of the music retail industry
- Contribute to pre-sales strategies
- Identify opportunities for business development
- Collate and report information on sales
Obtain Support for a Business IdeaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the types of support available for the development of a business idea
- Plan how to obtain support for a business idea
- Present a business idea to internal and external stakeholders of a business
Order products and servicesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to identify, select and negotiate the supply of products and services
- Understand organisational requirements and policies for the ordering and supply of products and services
- Understand how to monitor, evaluate and improve procedures for the ordering and supply of products and services
- Follow organisational procedures for the ordering and supply of products and services
- Maintain relationships with suppliers of products and services and deal with problems
- Monitor, evaluate and make recommendations to improve the ordering and supply of produc
Organise promotional events for the music industryReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand roles and responsibilities relating to promotional events
- Prepare for a promotional event
- Understand health and safety requirements for promotional events
- Co-ordinate a promotional event
Plan How to Let Customers Know About Products or ServicesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Review the market for the products or services of a business
- Produce a plan for marketing the products or services of a business
- Plan regular monitoring and reviewing of marketing performance of a business
Produce promotional material for the music industryReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the production of promotional material
- Develop and produce promotional material within resource and time constraints
- Distribute and administer promotional material
Register musical works for publishing and copyright complianceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Make recommendations for copyright registration and resolve issues
- Register music with royalty collection agencies
- Review income generation with royalty agencies
Review the Skills a Business NeedsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assess what skills are needed in a business
- Address skills gaps in order to meet the needs of a business
Seek Advice and Help for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify sources of advice and help available for a business
- Obtain advice and help for a business
- Review the effectiveness of advice and help obtained for a business
Support the identity, brand and characteristics of record labelsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explore brand identity
- Support brand identity
- Recommend brand identity
Understand how artist agreements and contracts workReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and processes relating to artist agreements and contracts
- Understand issues relating to compliance
- Understand issues relating to piracy and parallel imports
Understand record label identity and brandingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand brand identity
- Understand brand characteristics
- Understand industry trends and consumer decision making
- Understand legal, regulatory and ethical requirements affecting the marketing of the organisation’s products and services in the sector
Understand the Principles for Marketing and Selling New and Back Catalogue Music ReleasesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the marketing process in the music industry, including new and back catalogue releases
- Understand how to gauge competition in the music industry
- Understand customer need in relation to music releases
Understand the production of promotional material for the music industryReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand roles and responsibilities in the process of producing promotional materials
- Understand principles and processes for producing promotional materials
- Understand the legislative requirements for producing promotional materials
Understanding the Registration of Musical Works for Publishing and Copyright ComplianceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles involved in registering musical works for publishing
- Understand copyright compliance processes
Understanding the core knowledge needed by those who work with children and young peopleReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of effective communication and engagement with children, young people and their families/carers
- Understand the development of children and young people
- Understand the importance of safeguarding children and young people
- Understand the types of transitions affecting children and young people
- Understand the nature and importance of their role in multi-agency and integrated working in meeting the needs of children and young people
- Understand the importance of information sharing
Understanding the core knowledge needed by those who work with children and young people, and its impactReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to promote effective communication and engagement with children, young people and their families/carers
- Understand the development of, and the impact of this upon, children and young people
- Understand the importance of safeguarding children and young people, and associated responsibilities and procedures
- Understand how to support children and young people through transitions, and circumstances requiring specialist support
- Understand sources of information regarding individual children, young people and families/carers, and the importance of effective information sharing
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Understanding the impact of emerging technology on the music industryReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different types of emerging music technology.
- Understand the impact of emerging music technology on the music industry.
- Understand the legal requirements of music downloading and online sales
Undertake plugging of musicReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain a network within the music industry
- Co-ordinate plugging activity
- Administer plugging activity
- Review and report on plugging activity
Utilise social networking and social media to promote musicReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use social networking to promote music
- Use social media to promote music
- Evaluate the effectiveness and impact of networking
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Where these credits take you
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- Carry out field visits to premises where music licenses are being used or required
- Compile usage, release and chart lists for internal information
- Contribute to the development and design of promotional material for a music publishing organisation
- Ensure the delivery of the production
- Evaluate and select music for promotional compilations
- Evaluate music and assist with music selection and compilations
- Identify and propose new revenue streams and opportunities for a music publishing business
- Identify and recommend music and lyrics with commercial potential for publication
Where this can lead
Associate Music Rights Coordinator
Your journey starts here, with a solid foundation in the practicalities of music rights. We're committed to providing the opportunities and support for you to build a truly rewarding career, whether that's as a specialist lawyer, a legal operations expert, or a future leader in the music legal world.
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How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
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Built for Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Diploma in Music Business (Record Label) (QCF)
39 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Assist with budget setting within a record label context
- Balance Business Needs and Personal Life
- Carry Out Plans for a Business
- Carry out Banking for a Business
- Check what Customers Need from a Business
- Contribute to assessing the impact of emerging technology on the music industry
and 33 more in the full unit list below.
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- 1RememberThe Builder
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