Wednesday, September 14th

Today Renata came in late to work because she had a doctors appointment. I got in at around 9:15 and she wasn't in the office until 10:30, which gave me and the other intern, Mara, the chance to run the office by ourselves a little. We did the usual morning tasks like turn on the specific lamps and lights in Monte's office, (Monte is the CEO of Universal Music Group) we opened up the lounge where artists come in, and we did the sound scan and label analysis which is something we do every Wednesday. For those, we take last week's top 200 charts and top 40 charts of our artists and arrange them for Monte to see and evaluate. I found out today that our record label is number 3 in the world which is up two spots from where it was a month ago. I love learning little things here and there about our company as I go along. Once Renata came in, it was a pretty relaxed day. I did three stories on artist news; one about Amy Winehouse, one about Lil Wayne, and one about The Band Perry. I did a little more research on the label and our artists just to stay up to date, and I found out that we own more artists than I thought. We have about 10 labels that we own under the UMG name including Lady Gaga's label, Enrique Iglesisas' label, etc. We have a connection with nearly every major artist in the industry and it felt neat to be a part of something that big.