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RECORDING CONTRACTS Record Companies only 'discover' those few artists who pose a threat to those acts the company already has a hard financial commitment to! The only 'insurance' they have is to play people's ignorance against them and let the fools keep themselves out of the Industry on any ruse that will work.
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WORLD WIDE DISTRIBUTION FOR YOUR LABEL! HERE'S HOW TO GET IT! First, most people who start their own labels do so simply because they are musicians themselves and the doors to all other labels are either closed, are outright scam operations, or totally without the means to throw a record any farther than the nearest trash can. And that won't work.
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MUSIC MONEY -- Using a combination of FOUR WALLS (FOUR WALLS is an inside Booking Industry term meaning - DIY - pay your own bills and do your own thing!) and Concert Producer venues! FIRST, GET RID OF THE DELUSION: the vast majority of money made in Recorded Music is earned from record sales.
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REAL & PHONY CHARTS Independent Labels must suffer the 'major label' myths and delusions, and especially when it comes to real and phony charts and direct record sales. Getting a chart record is easy enough, but selling records is an entirely different nightmar
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WHO TO TRUST: Every so-called "songwriter association" and public performance licensing agency advises against the "send it in" and get "professional lead sheets" or "your song in a (non-distributed!) album" Not because they have any real concern for YOU losing YOUR money, but because they want YOU to spend YOUR money with them!
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