What´s new in music industry?
Hello there, i want to talk a little about this new scenario in the "music industry".
All of us who want to live of their work sometime dreamed about being signed by a record label and have their songs in vinyl or a Cd with their names printed shining on the cover. No one can deny this..it´s one of the big carrots in our careers. But in this amazing new century the scenario is absolutely novel, we have this new deeva, digital online sales..a miracle for record labels and a pain in the ass for new artists. And why I say this? Well it´s really simple, in the past we used to make our songs, presented them to A&R´s (guys who work for music companies deciding what´s good or what´s not comercially talking ) and if the song was good, we received some money in advance of future sales and we can continue working, with some money in the pocket and the hope of more in the future. Now, as the labels have the chance of publish zillions of songs without wasting a cent, we can´t ask for a single penny in advance concept and of course we have a rough competence of other artists, now we´re loads of musicians offering their work to millions little record labels that sell through music portals (the big ones: ITunes, MSN; the smaller: Beatport, Traxxsource, Juno and you can imagine how many more are)
The result is a totally mess, where as usual, no artist win,only the stores and the labels gets their money of our sweat.
How can we, artists, fight this? Well, i dont know really, the old way had its benefits and its oddities and this new way is abolutely unpredictable so..maby you can add something to this discussion, doors are open.
Good night
All of us who want to live of their work sometime dreamed about being signed by a record label and have their songs in vinyl or a Cd with their names printed shining on the cover. No one can deny this..it´s one of the big carrots in our careers. But in this amazing new century the scenario is absolutely novel, we have this new deeva, digital online sales..a miracle for record labels and a pain in the ass for new artists. And why I say this? Well it´s really simple, in the past we used to make our songs, presented them to A&R´s (guys who work for music companies deciding what´s good or what´s not comercially talking ) and if the song was good, we received some money in advance of future sales and we can continue working, with some money in the pocket and the hope of more in the future. Now, as the labels have the chance of publish zillions of songs without wasting a cent, we can´t ask for a single penny in advance concept and of course we have a rough competence of other artists, now we´re loads of musicians offering their work to millions little record labels that sell through music portals (the big ones: ITunes, MSN; the smaller: Beatport, Traxxsource, Juno and you can imagine how many more are)
The result is a totally mess, where as usual, no artist win,only the stores and the labels gets their money of our sweat.
How can we, artists, fight this? Well, i dont know really, the old way had its benefits and its oddities and this new way is abolutely unpredictable so..maby you can add something to this discussion, doors are open.
Good night
posted by Alfredo Norese @ 9:29 p. m.
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