Posted on 01/03/2021 11:36:42 AM PST by SamAdams76
I’ve read that many artists are by-passing the Record Labels and producing on their own. Am I wrong?
People wasting time on Free Republic will never get a record deal. Useless post.
“If you’ve been playing for years, we’ve already heard your song.”
The Internet is a fantastic medium for distribution, but copyrights get little murky. Just look at what's going on with Twitch and their on-again-off-again DMCA takedowns of streamers who play copyrighted music. It's insanely frustrating and can bring a streamer's revenue to zero quickly if they're "DMCA'd."
I'd love to see the DMCA repealed and rewritten. It's a cluster.
#6 Can I be sued for torture or crimes against humanity by singing?
Says the failed musician with an Aerosmith song as his tagline.
Have you ever read “The Hotel New Hampshire”?
This article is a bit of a joke.
Record deals these days are, except for rare exceptions, a lose / lose for the artist.
There is NO money now in making albums. Everyone, steals the music and Spotify etc. pay so little it is meaningless even for big name artists.
You can only make money with live performance. And that only makes money for the biggest acts - for everyone else it is a wage paying grind at best.
Record deals are just marketing avenues now - and the artist pays for that. Even if I (I tried to make a living as a recording artist at one time) hand the label a finished product, and they have no recording costs, all of the contracts these days are such that even if the label sells 500,000 copies (not easy to do these days) I would still OWE them money.
Yes you can record very cheaply now and market yourself on Youtube etc. Lady gag gag comes to mind. And sell your cd’s yourself. But it is not easy. And there just isn’t much money in album sales.
Cause everyone STEALS THE MUSIC - relatively few actually pay for it.
Yes I’m a little bitter. heh
You never know who they know that may benefit from the advice.
“Don’t call us, we’ll call you.”
Beat me to it.
They have their own producers and just put it out there. Also, heard some Rock artists that mixed things up with an original sound.
The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story
He was also a total con man and rip-off artist, who died in a federal prison while serving a 25-year sentence for conspiracy, money laundering, and making false statements.
There are no record deals these days.
80% of the money in the industry today is from streaming which is full of fraud and must go online via only authorized agents (no direct path for independent self-released artists anymore).
The streaming charts are even faker than this past election. Server farms around the world banking play counts.
I ran the smallest brass, jazz, and blues label from 1997 to 2017. Not an easy business.
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