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Music Business Made Simple: Start an Independent Record Label by J.S. Rudsenske

Music Business Made Simple: Start an Independent Record Label J.S. Rudsenske ebook
ISBN: 9780825673108
Format: pdf
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Page: 262

If you have not heard of Ben Haggerty, known globally as Macklemore, you need to start listening. If you think about starting your own independent record label, read Music Business Made Simple: Start An Independent Record Label. With the Internet, distribution has been made so simple that most of the cost of maintaining a label is limited to monthly or yearly fees to an internet service provider. If you're not familiar with the term, While many netlabels are simple ventures run by small groups of likeminded artists, some are very large and rival traditional record labels in the marketing and booking services they offer musicians. Today, after a decade of lawsuits and lobbying major labels make about the same revenue from albums while selling 30% less units then they did in the pre-Internet era. Seattle has changed the landscape of music business forever. Simple answer, but it's the truth. With simple word of mouth and an Internet takeover by his fans, Macklemore's song “Thrift Shop” has become a staple on the radio waves without any label backing. Without a label, you can't make a record unless you're independently wealthy or you have people who are willing to give you their time and effort for nothing, studios included, and that's very hard to come by. We've seen an incredible wave over the past several years beginning with the demoscene, to online music file sharing, and now with the rise of netlabels as independent record 'companies' and distribute their music while also maintaining a DIY ethic. They will make a massive different to the outcome of your agreement with the publisher. And the general public until relatively recently. Warner Music also declined to comment, but in a recent Senate hearing, the company criticized the Universal-EMI merger as bad for big labels and independent artists alike, and claimed it was open to digital services, noting that it was the first record label to embrace iTunes. Label Launch: A Guide to Independent Record Recording , Promotion, and Distribution by Veronika Kalmar * Music Business Made Simple: Start . For this reason, it is 100% worth getting a music lawyer to help you dissect your contract if you're ever in this position. A small indie, genre-bending hip hop artist from Seattle has changed the landscape of music business forever. If you want to make a If you have a prison system in America that's based on profit — just the other day that judge got sentenced for sending children to jail — the system is open to corruption. Last week, open access journal First Monday published an excellent research article (licensed CC BY-NC-ND) by Patryk Galuszka called Netlabels and Democratization of the Music Industry. The Most Incredible Independent Record Company You Never Heard About. Meanwhile By failing to establish a sustainable, standardized system for licensing digital music, "the record industry fiddled on the sidelines while the digital revolution went on without them.".