Difference between in major labels and independent record labels - Arman

Sony Music Entertainment vs Carpark Records

Carpark records takes on smaller artists such as Saint Pepsi, as shown in the figure on the left.  This is a small label company has helped Saint Pepsi distribute 5 albums so far!  He is now a major artist on youtube receiving millions of views on his songs, all without the help of a major record label.  This goes to show that in todays music industry you don't need to be assigned to a big label in order to become well known artists, but not famous, as major label arists, since major labels have tv deals and ads and websites which help promote major artists more, making them better for becoming bigger, so most artists start off at small labels and work their way to major labels.

With major labels such as Sony Music, you only get well known major celebrity artists assigned to them, nobody who isn't already well known.  For example, A$AP Rocky was assigned to Sony Music in 2011, after he had joined a smaller group called ASAP Mob in 2007, who helped him gain some minor attention which helped him in the process of gaining fame, the deal was worth $3 million.

In Reality, all major artists started from smaller labels and worked their way up the music industry in gaining fame starting from smaller
labels and then getting contracts from major ones
such as Sony Music.  So in reality all artists who
start from small labels have a chance at becoming
A-list artists.