Nine departments, and an honest account of which of them an independent artist can replace, which they cannot, and the arithmetic that decides whether fewer sales can still mean more money.
A record label is not one thing, and that is the whole reason the sign-or-stay-independent question is so badly argued. It is a bundle of distinct business functions, and an artist signing a deal is renting access to all of them at once, in exchange for a share of income and usually ownership of the recordings.
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