How To Create A Record Label?
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skelly
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| I am going to the music business and I am slowly getting to know all the aspects of it. I have one question. I am interested in creating record label, but I am not sure how. If anyone could help, that would be great. Thanks in advance for any help. I will appreciate it. |
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antoine
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| Posted: 10/20/07 - 01:18 Post subject: |
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Creating a record label is very important, maybe one of the key elements you need to do perfectly in order to be successful in music business. With that you will be able to make ads, commercials, whole campaigns that could give you a lot of success. There is one good site that will introduce you to all this and make you create your record label. I suggest you go to http://www.rapcointelpro.com/
Start20A20Record20Label.htm for much more info. If you are patient and persistent, and a bit creative, I am sure you will have at least some moderate success. Best of luck. |
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Nuts
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| Posted: 01/01/08 - 19:52 Post subject: |
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| skelly wrote: | | I am going to the music business and I am slowly getting to know all the aspects of it. I have one question. I am interested in creating record label, but I am not sure how. If anyone could help, that would be great. Thanks in advance for any help. I will appreciate it. |
my advice... don't do it until you have that unique band or singer who will put your record label in the spotlight.... problem is that there are just a few mayor record labels in the world... they control everything of the business, even the royalties of the songwriters which is set by the government.
daily are starting people with new labels and daily are labels closing down... not many labels can survive.... they make high investments and never seen any buck of it back... nice for the band, they have nice recording session but the label sits with a worthless master CD which don't sell at all.... a very very basic story for many many indie labels in the industry....
music business is a very hard quick business, I know the scene for about 20 yrs now... everything what you do, you have to protect with contracts, contracts and contracts... on each corner you will find a hawk to steal your business... especially when you a little label with no weight at all...
you can setup your own label best digital, invest your money in recording some artists/bands in the studio, open a website & put the songs available to purchase online.... on that way you can make one of the biggest bucks in the industry... if you advertise and promote your label within the big pile of labels worldwide... and your recording must be SUPER QUALITY... else your buyers will give a bad review on the net and your business can be ruined... a budget for the recording of just one song costs easy $10,000... for me is that even to small... $40,000 for one song, is very normal in this business.... of course we know a uncle who is running pro-tools on his computer on the ceiling and he can master the recording.... yeh right, how that uncle with pro-tools can beat up with masters in the business with a $4 million dollar equipment..... if you record a song with them, then you have very good quality which can sell....
I don't know or you new in this business but so far I can read you do. Business in general is networking but music industry is everything about your weight, what you done before and who you know... if you are for example a good friend of John Mayer or Bono from U2, a lot of the doors will going automatically open for you... else you have to proof yourself first.... big names in the industry don't talk with small flies... they don't care about them and to be honest, we get even sick of them....
I get each week more then 40 CD's mailed as demo of the most horrible bands and artists I have ever heared of in my life... American Idols is a joke compared to what I get.... everybody with a computer and a stupid sound recording application think able to sing.... 15 years ago was it more easier... you got more decent stuff because it cost money for those bands to create those demo's... with all the home studio's and computers is is that last obstacle gone and everyone start to record now... the demo market is totally swollen of the crap music... sometimes you don't see the real talents anymore between all that crap....
back to the story, so you need first to build a name with weight and creditability in the music industry before they even think to talk with you, even when you a bloody good band recorded... and that takes many many years to do so... and only a few of them are successful in that...
dont forget in music business this line
MISTAKES ARE FORGIVEN BUT NOT FORGOTTEN!!!
but why do you want to start a record label?
and what is your goal with it?
and answers like ' to find the new Elvis Presley or Britney Spears ' is not what it is, all the other 100,000 record labels worldwide say and hope for the same... |
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