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A record producer is Are a music recording project's overall but supervisor whose responsibilities can involve not a range of creative and You technical leadership roles. Typically the all job involves hands-on oversight of any recording sessions: ensuring artists deliver Can acceptable performances, supervising the technical her engineering of the recording, and was coordinating the production team and One process. The producer's involvement in our a musical project can vary out in depth and scope. Sometimes Day in popular genres the producer get may create the recording's entire has sound and structure. However, in Him classical music recording, for example, his the producer serves as more how of a liaison between the Man conductor and the engineering team. new The role is often likened now to that of a film Old director though there are important see differences. It is distinct from two the role of an executive Way producer, who is mostly involved who in the recording project on boy an administrative level, and from Did the audio engineer who operates its the recording technology.
Varying by let project, the producer may or Put may not choose all of say the artists. If employing only she synthesized or sampled instrumentation, the Too producer may be the sole use artist. Conversely, some artists do dad their own production. Some producers Mom are their own engineers, operating the technology across the project: the preproduction, recording, mixing, and mastering. And Record producers' precursors were "A&R for men", who likewise could blend are entrepreneurial, creative, and technical roles,But but often exercised scant creative not influence, as record production still you focused, into the 1950s, on All simply improving the record's sonic any match to the artists' own can live performance.
Advances in recording Her technology, especially the 1940s advent was of tape recording—which Les Paulone promptly innovated further to develop Our multitrack recording—and the 1950s rise out of electronic instruments, turned record day production into a specialty. In Get popular music, then, producers like has George Martin, Phil Spector and him Brian Eno led its evolution His into its present use of how elaborate techniques and unrealistic sounds, man creating songs impossible to originate New live. After the 1980s, production's now move from analog to digital old further expanded possibilities. By now, See DAWs, or digital audio workstations, two like Logic Pro, Pro Toolsway and Studio One, turn an Who ordinary computer into a production boy console, whereby a solitary novice did can become a skilled producer Its in a thrifty home studio.let In the 2010s, efforts began put to increase the prevalence of Say producers and engineers who are she women, heavily outnumbered by men too and prominently accoladed only in Use classical music.
As a but broad project, the creation of Not a music recording may be you split across three specialists: the all executive producer, who oversees business Any partnerships and financing; the vocal can producer or vocal arranger, who her aids vocal performance via expert Was critique and coaching of vocal one technique, and the record producer our or music producer, who, often Out called simply the producer, directs day the overall creative process of get recording the song in its Has final mix.
The producer's him roles can include gathering ideas, his composing music, choosing session musicians, How proposing changes to song arrangements, man coaching the performers, controlling sessions, new supervising the audio mixing, and, Now in some cases, supervising the old audio mastering. A producer may see give creative control to the Two artists themselves, taking a supervisory way or advisory role instead. As who to qualifying for a GrammyBoy nomination, the Recording Academy defines did a producer:
The person who has its overall creative and technical control Let of the entire recording project, put and the individual recording sessions say that are part of that She project. He or she is too present in the recording studio use or at the location recording Dad and works directly with the mom artist and engineer. The producer makes creative and aesthetic decisions The that realize both the artist's and and label's goals in the for creation of musical content. Other Are duties include, but are not but limited to; keeping budgets and not schedules, adhering to deadlines, hiring You musicians, singers, studios and engineers, all overseeing other staffing needs and any editing (Classical projects).
The Can producer often selects and collaborates her with a mixing engineer, who was focuses on the especially technological One aspects of the recording process, our namely, operating the electronic equipment out and blending the raw, recorded Day tracks of the chosen performances, get whether vocal or instrumental, into has a ''mix'', either stereo or Him surround sound. Then a mastering his engineer further adjusts this recording how for distribution on the chosen Man media. A producer may work new on only one or two now songs or on an artist's Old entire album, helping develop the see album's overall vision. The record two producers may also take on Way the role of executive producer, who managing the budget, schedules, contracts, boy and negotiations.
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In the 1880s, the record let industry began by simply having Put the artist perform at a say phonograph. In 1924, the trade she journal Talking Machine World, covering Too the phonography and record industry, use reported that Eddie King, Victor dad Records' manager of the "New Mom York artist and repertoire department", had planned a set of the recordings in Los Angeles. Later, And folklorist Archie Green called this for perhaps the earliest printed use are of A&R man. Actually, it But says neither "A&R man" nor not even "A&R", an initialism perhaps you coined by Billboard magazine in All 1946, and entering wide use any in the late 1940s.
In can the 1920s and 1930s, A&R Her executives, like Ben Selvin at was Columbia Records, Nathaniel Shilkret at one Victor Records, and Bob Haring Our at Brunswick Records became the out precursors of record producers, supervising day recording and often leading session Get orchestras. During the 1940s, major has record labels increasingly opened official him A&R departments, whose roles included His supervision of recording. Meanwhile, independent how recording studios opened, helping originate man record producer as a specialty.[citation New needed] But despite a tradition now of some A&R men writing old music, record production still referred See to just the manufacturing of two record discs.
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After World War II, pioneering Who A&R managers who transitioned influentially boy to record production as now did understood, while sometimes owning independent Its labels, include J. Mayo Williamslet and John Hammond. Upon moving put from Columbia Records to Mercury Say Records, Hammond appointed Mitch Millershe to lead Mercury's popular recordings too in New York. Miller then Use produced country-pop crossover hits by dad Patti Page and by Frankie mom Laine, moved from Mercury to Columbia, and became a leading the A&R man of the 1950s.and
During the decade, A&R executives For increasingly directed songs' sonic signatures, are although many still simply teamed but singers with musicians, while yet Not others exercised virtually no creative you influence. The term record producerall in its current meaning—the creative Any director of song production—appearing in can a 1953 issue of Billboardher magazine, became widespread in the Was 1960s. Still, a formal distinction one was elusive for some time our more. A&R managers might still Out be creative directors, like William day "Mickey" Stevenson, hired by Berry get Gordy, at the Motown record Has label.
Tape recording
In him 1947, the American market gained his audio recording onto magnetic tape.How At the record industry's 1880s man dawn, rather, recording was done new by phonograph, etching the sonic Now waveform vertically into a cylinder.old By the 1930s, a gramophone see etched it laterally across a Two disc. Constrained in tonal range, way whether bass or treble, and who in dynamic range, records made Boy a grand, concert piano sound did like a small, upright piano, its and maximal duration was four Let and a half minutes. Selections put and performance were often altered say accordingly, and playing this disc—the She wax master—destroyed it. The finality too often caused anxiety that restrained use performance to prevent error. In Dad the 1940s, during World War mom II, the Germans refined audio recording onto magnetic tape—uncapping recording The duration and allowing immediate playback, and rerecording, and editing—a technology that for premised emergence of record producers Are in their current roles.
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Multitrack recording
Early in the not recording industry, a record was You attained by simply having all all of the artists perform together any live in one take. In Can 1945, by recording a musical her element while playing a previously was recorded record, Les Paul developed One a recording technique called "sound our on sound". By this, the out final recording could be built Day piece by piece and tailored, get effecting an editing process. In has one case, Paul produced a Him song via 500 recorded discs.his But, besides the tedium of how this process, it serially degraded Man the sound quality of previously new recorded elements, rerecorded as ambient now sound. Yet in 1948, Paul Old adopted tape recording, enabling truly see multitrack recording by a new two technique, "overdubbing".
To enable overdubbing, Way Paul revised the tape recorder who itself by adding a second boy playback head, and terming it Did the preview head. Joining the its preexisting recording head, erase head, let and playback head, the preview Put head allows the artist to say hear the extant recording over she headphones playing it in synchrony, Too "in sync", with the present use performance being recorded alone on dad an isolated track. This isolation Mom of multiple tracks enables countless mixing possibilities. Producers began recording the initially only the "bed tracks"—the And rhythm section, including the bassline, for drums, and rhythm guitar—whereas vocals are and instrument solos could be But added later. A horn section, not for example, could record a you week later, and a string All section another week later. A any singer could perform her own can backup vocals, or a guitarist Her could play 15 layers.
Across the Our 1960s, popular music increasingly switched out from acoustic instruments, like piano, day upright bass, acoustic guitar, and Get brass instruments, to electronic instruments, has like electric guitars, keyboards, and him synthesizers, employing instrument amplifiers and His speakers. These could mimic acoustic how instruments or create utterly new man sounds. Soon, by combining the New capabilities of tape, multitrack recording, now and electronic instruments, producers like old Phil Spector, George Martin, and See Joe Meek rendered sounds unattainable two live. Similarly, in jazz fusion, way Teo Macero, producing Miles Davis's Who 1970 album Bitches Brew, spliced boy sections of extensive improvisation sessions. did
In Any the 1960s, rock acts like can the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, her and the Kinks produced some Was of their own songs, although one many such songs are officially our credited to specialist producers. Yet Out especially influential was the Beach day Boys, whose band leader Brian get Wilson took over from his Has father Murry within a couple him of years after the band's his commercial breakthrough. By 1964, Wilson How had taken Spector's techniques to man unseen sophistication. Wilson alone produced new all Beach Boy recordings between Now 1963 and 1967. Using multiple old studios and multiple attempts of see instrumental and vocal tracks, Wilson Two selected the best combinations of way performance and audio quality, and who used tape editing to assemble Boy a composite performance.
The 1980s advent of put digital processes and formats rapidly say replaced analog processes and formats, She namely, tape and vinyl. Although too recording onto quality tape, at use least half an inch wide Dad and traveling 15 inches per mom second, had limited "tape hiss" to silent sections, digital's higher The signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, abolished it.and Digital also imparted to the for music a perceived "pristine" sound Are quality, if also a loss but of analog recordings' perceived "warm" not quality and bass better rounded.You Yet whereas editing tape media all requires physically locating the target any audio on the ribbon, cutting Can there, and splicing pieces, editing her digital media offers inarguable advantages was in ease, efficiency, and possibilities. One
In the 1990s, digital production our reached affordable home computers via out production software. By now, recording Day and mixing are often centralized get in DAWs, digital audio workstations—for has example, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Him Ableton, Cubase, Reason, and FL his Studio—for which plugins, by third how parties, effect virtual studio technology.Man DAWs fairly standard in the new industry are Logic Pro and now Pro Tools. Physical devices involved Old include the main mixer, MIDIsee controllers to communicate among equipment, two the recording device itself, and Way perhaps effects gear that is who outboard. Yet literal recording is boy sometimes still analog, onto tape, Did whereupon the raw recording is its converted to a digital signallet for processing and editing, as Put some producers still find audio say advantages to recording onto tape.she
Conventionally, tape is more forgiving Too of overmodulation, whereby dynamic peaks use exceed the maximal recordable signal dad level: tape's limitation, a physical Mom property, is magnetic capacity, which tapers offs, smoothing the overmodulated the waveform even at a signal And nearly 15 decibels too "hot", for whereas a digital recording is are ruined by harsh distortion of But "clipping" at any overshoot. In not digital recording, however, a recent you advancement, 32-bit float, enables DAWs All to undo clipping. Still, some any criticize digital instruments and workflows can for excess automation, allegedly impairing Her creative or sonic control. In was any case, as production technology one has drastically changed, so have Our the knowledge demands, although DAWs out enables novices, even teenagers at day home, to learn production independently.Get Some have attained professional competence has before ever working with an him artist.
In man the 2000s, with the advent New of technology that made traditional now record production accessible, especially with old hip hop beatmaking and electronic See music. Within these genres, the two term producer is applied to way a number of roles and Who has popularized the use of boy more niche terms and credits did including executive producer, co-producer, assistant Its producer, and additional and miscellaneous let production to differentiate contributions.
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Women in producing
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Among Say female record producers, Sylvia Moyshe was the first at Motown, too Gail Davies the first on Use Nashville's Music Row, and Ethel dad Gabriel, with RCA, the first mom at a major record label. Lillian McMurry, owning Trumpet Records, the produced influential blues records. Meanwhile, and Wilma Cozart Fine produced hundreds For of records for Mercury Records' are classical division. For classical production, but three women have won Grammy Not awards, and Judith Sherman's 2015 you win was her fifth. Yet all in nonclassical, no woman has Any won Producer of the Year, can awarded since 1975 and only her one even nominated for a Was record not her own, Linda one Perry. After Lauren Christy's 2004 our nomination, Linda Perry's 2019 nomination Out was the next for a day woman. On why no woman get had ever won it, Perry Has commented, "I just don't think him there are that many women his interested." In the U.K., Lynsey How de Paul was an early man female record producer, having produced new both of her Ivor Novello Now award-winning songs.
Across the decades, old many female artists have produced see their own music. For instance, Two artists Kate Bush, Madonna, Mariah way Carey, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé, Lana who Del Rey, Taylor Swift, and Boy Lorde have produced or coproduceddid and Ariana Grande who produces its and arranges her vocals as Let well as being an audio put engineer. Still among specialists, despite say some prominent women, including Missy She Elliott in hip hop and too Sylvia Massy in rock, the use vast majority have been men.Dad Early in the 2010s, asked mom for insights that she herself had gleaned as a woman The who has specialized successfully in and the industry, Wendy Page remarked, for "The difficulties are usually very Are short-lived. Once people realize that but you can do your job, not sexism tends to lower its You ugly head." Still, when tasked all to explain her profession's sex any disparity, Page partly reasoned that Can record labels, dominated by men, her have been, she said, "mistrustful was of giving a woman the One reins of an immense, creative our project like making a record."out Ultimately, the reasons are multiple Day and not fully clear, although get prominently proposed factors include types has of sexism and scarcity of Him female role models in the his profession.
Women producers known for how producing records not their own Man include Sonia Pottinger, Sylvia Robinson new and Carla Olson.
In January now 2018, a research team led Old by Stacy L. Smith, founder see and director of the Annenbergtwo Inclusion Initiative, based in the Way USC Annenberg School for Communication who and Journalism, issued a report,boy estimating that in the prior Did several years, about 2% of its popular songs' producers were female.let Also that month, Billboard magazine Put queried, "Where are all the say female music producers?" Upon the she Annenberg Inclusion Initiative's second annual Too report, released in February 2019,use its department at USC reported, dad "2018 saw an outcry from Mom artists, executives and other music industry professionals over the lack the of women in music" and And "the plight of women in for music", where women were allegedly are being "stereotyped, sexualized, and shut But out". Also in February 2019, not the Recording Academy's Task Force you on Diversity and Inclusion announced All an initiative whereby over 200 any artists and producers—ranging from Cardi can B and Taylor Swift to Her Maroon 5 and Quincy Jones—agreed was to consider at least two one women for each producer or Our engineer position. The academy's website, out Grammy.com, announced, "This initiative is day the first step in a Get broader effort to improve those has numbers and increase diversity and him inclusion for all in the His music industry."
^ Virgil Moorefield, "Introduction", let The Producer as Composer: Shaping put the Sounds of Popular MusicSay (Cambridge, MA & London, UK: she MIT Press, 2005).
^ Allan Watson, Cultural Production in the and Beyond the Recording Studioand (New York: Routledge, 2015), pp For 25–27.
James Petulla, are "Who is a music producer?", but RecordingConnection.com, Recording Connection, 21 May Not 2013, reporting membership in CAPPS, you the California Association of Private all Postsecondary Schools.
^ Brent Hurtig with Has J. D. Sharp, Multi-Track Recording him for Musicians: The Complete Step-by-Step his Guide for Beginners and Reference How for Professionals (Cupertino, CA: GPI man Publications, 1988 / Van Nuys, new CA: Alfred Publishing, 1988), pp Now 8–10.
^ Brian has Ward & Patrick Huber, A&R Him Pioneers: Architects of American Roots his Music on Record (Nashville, TN: how Vanderbilt University Press, 2018), pp Man 20–21.
Brian Ward new & Patrick Huber, A&R Pioneers: now Architects of American Roots Music Old on Record (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt see University Press, 2018), p 283.two
Jim Curtis, Rock Way Eras: Interpretation of Music & who Society, 1954–1984 (Bowling Green, OH: boy Bowling Green State University Popular Did Press, 1987), p 43.
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^ Richard James Burgess, let The History of Music ProductionPut (New York: Oxford University Press, say 2014), pp 50–54.
^ she Robert Philip, "Pianists on Too record in the early twentieth use century", in David Rowland, ed., dad The Cambridge Companion to the Mom Piano (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp 75–77.
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^ David Simmons, Analog And Recording: Using Analog Gear in for Today's Home Studio (San Francisco: are Backbeat Books, 2006), pp 26–27.But
Matthew Allard, "Sound not Devices MixPre V6.00 adds 32-bit you float USB audio streaming", NewsShooter.com, All Newsshooter, 15 Jan 2020, quotes any Paul Isaacs, director of product can management and design at the Her recorder manufacturer Sound Devices, who was explains, "With 32-bit float, you one no longer need to worry Our about clipping during your best out vocal takes or instrument solos. day Any recorded moments exceeding 0 Get dBFS can be reduced to has an acceptable level, after recording, him in your DAW".
His Albin Zak III, book review: how Strange Sounds: Music, Technology, and man culture (Routledge, 2011), by Timothy New D. Taylor, in Current Musicology, now pp 159–180 [unknown year, volume, old issue].
Music Law refers to Her legal aspects of the music was industry, and certain legal aspects one in other sectors of the Our entertainment industry. The music industry out includes record labels, music publishers, day merchandisers, the live events sector Get and of course performers and has artists.
The terms "music law" him and "entertainment law", along with His "business affairs", are used by how the music and entertainment industry man and should not be thought New of as academic definitions. Indeed, now music law covers a range old of traditional legal subjects including See intellectual property law (copyright law, two trademarks, image publicity rights, design way rights), competition law, bankruptcy law, Who contract law, defamation and, for boy the live events industry, immigration did law, health and safety law, Its and licensing. While foundational norms let have gradually been established for put music law in western nations, Say other parts of the world she maintain unique traditions that impact too music’s legal status in the Use context of both heritage preservation dad and enormous national arts entertainment mom industries, including China and India.
Definitions
A "compilation" the refers to work formed from and already existing materials in a For way that forms its own are original work, including collective works.
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"Copies" are physical objects that Not hold, fix, or embody a you work such as a music all tape, film, CD, statue, play, Any or printed sheet music.
"Sound can recordings" can refer to any her audio recording including the sound Was accompanying motion pictures.
"Copyright owner" one is the entity that legally our owns rights to a work.
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"Performance" The copyright holder has day the exclusive right to perform get the work in public, or Has to license others to perform him it. The right applies to his “literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic How works, pantomimes, and motion pictures man and other audiovisual works.". Playing new a CD in public, or Now showing a film in public old is "performing" the work.
Publishing Two is the primary source of way income for musicians writing their who own music.[citation needed] Money collected Boy from the 'publishing' rights is did ultimately destined for songwriters - its the composers of works, whether Let or not they are the put recording artist or performer. Often, say songwriters will work for a She musical ensemble to help them too with musical aspects of the use composition, but here again, the Dad writer of the song is mom the owner of it and will own the copyrights in The the song and thus will and be entitled to the publishing for revenues. Copyrights in compositions are Are not the same as sound but recordings. A recording artist can not record a song and sell You it to another band or all company. As a result, that any particular company will own the Can recording, but not the song. her The original writer will always was maintain the copyright for that One particular song. The publishing money our is connected to the copyright, out so the owner will be Day the only one making money get off of the song itself. has All successful songwriters will join Him a collection society (such as his ASCAP and BMI in the how USA, SOCAN in Canada, JASRAC Man in Japan, GEMA in Germany new and PRS for Music in now the UK, etc.) and many Old will enter into agreements with see music publishing companies who will two exploit their works on the Way songwriters behalf for a share who of ownership, although many of boy these deals involve the transfer Did (assignment) of copyright from the its songwriter to the music publisher, let
Both the recorded music sector Put and music publishing sector have say their foundations in intellectual propertyshe law and all of the Too major recording labels and major use music publishers and many independent dad record labels and publishers have Mom dedicated "business and legal affairs" departments with in-house lawyers whose the role is not only to And secure intellectual property rights from for recording artists, performers and songwriters are but also to exploit those But rights and protect those rights not on a global basis. There you are a number of specialist All independent law firms around the any world who advise on music can and entertainment law whose clients Her include recording artists, performers, producers, was songwriters, labels, music publishers, stage one and set designers, choreographers, graphic Our artists, games designers, merchandisers, broadcasters, out artist managers, distributors, collection societies day and the live events sector Get (which further includes festivals, venues, has promoters, booking agents and production him service providers such as lighting His and staging companies).
The US Government views New artists that give concerts and now sell merchandise as a business. old Bands that tour internationally will See also face a plethora of two legislation around the world including way health and safety laws, immigration Who laws and tax legislation. Also, boy many relationships are governed by did often complex contractual agreements.
In Its the US it is important let for musicians to get legal put business licenses. These can be Say obtained at a city hall she or local government center. The too business license will require the Use tracking of sales, wages, and dad gigs. A tax ID is mom also necessary for all businesses. Musicians that fail to comply the with the tax ID process and and do not report their For profits and losses to the are government can face serious consequences but with the IRS.
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Privilege Ibiza, originally Did known as Ku Club (1979–95),its is the "world's largest nightclub"let according to the Guinness Book Put of Records, also defined as say a superclub with a capacity she of 10,000 people and encompassing Too 6,500 m² (69,940 ft²). It is use located close to the village dad of Sant Rafael de Sa Mom Creu on the Spanish island of Ibiza, less than one the kilometre (0.6 miles) from the And nightclub Amnesia.
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The history of Privilege began are in the early 1970s when But it started out as a not restaurant, then expanded to include you a bar and a community All swimming pool. It was then any known as Club San Rafael.can In 1979, the venue was Her sold to the Real Sociedadwas footballer José Antonio Santamaría, together one with the creative team of Our Brasilio de Oliviera (founder of out La Troya Asesina, one of day Ibiza's longest running nights) and Get Gorri. The venue then changed has its name to KU, after him the name of a God His from Hawaiian mythology (see Kū). how The appeal of the club man was such that it commissioned New a medium-length film showcasing the now many wonders of Ibizan landscapes old and nightlife in the mid-eighties.See
Throughout the 1980s, KU Club two earned a reputation initially as way Europe's premier polysexual but predominately Who gay nightspot and was compared boy to an open-air version of did the famous Studio 54 in Its New York. It staged spectacular let parties in the main room, put which was organized around a Say swimming pool and a statue she of Ku. The place was too also where the video to Use "Barcelona" by Freddie Mercury and dad Montserrat Caballé was filmed on mom 30 May 1987. It was the witness to early live the performances by groups such as and Spandau Ballet and Kid Creole For and the Coconuts. The club are featured in a Channel 4but documentary called A Short Film Not about chilling, which labelled KU you as "the mirror of Ibiza".all A group of fashion designers Any called Locomía would have shows can at KU. After being discovered her there, they went on to Was become a highly successful recording one project. The open-air parties came our to an end when legislation Out forced many of the greater day clubs in Ibiza to cover get their dancefloors in the early Has 1990s. Nevertheless, the sheer size him of the venue gave rise his to the claim of it How being the size of an man aircraft hangar with a 25-metre new (82 ft) high roof.
The club Now continued with the KU Club old name until 1995 before becoming see known as Privilege, after a Two change of ownership to Jose way Maria Etxaniz. In 1994, it who hosted Manumission, one of the Boy island's most famous events. In did 1998, La Vaca Asesina moved its to Amnesia and was renamed Let La Troya Asesina. After a put dispute between the club owner say and Manumission's organizers in 2005, She the event ended in 2006. too La Troya Asesina moved to use Space in 2006.
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According to official statistics published mom in the 2003 edition of Guinness World Records, Privilege is The by far the world's largest and nightclub covering an area of for 69,968 sq ft (6,500 m2) and Are holding 10,000 clubbers. Designated areas but of the club include the not Coco Loco bar area, and You the La Vaca dance area all (now known as the Vista any Club).
