#record industry

[stone-cold-groove]

Now you can buy any record or tape on any label! Ad for King Karol Records - 1969.

[twopoppies]

hii, do you know where louis said that? Is it from an interview? I'd like to know the real source

https://x.com/_skiptamalou/status/1814304714512560201?s=46

Ooh, I remember the quote, but not the source. The OP says it’s from a FIMQ video, but I don’t have a copy of the one they reference.

Does anyone recall the source of this quote?

[cuethetommo]

This is really interesting from Alex Salibian. The music industry has a lot to answer for and I wonder the place of things like this. Posted March 31, 2021.

Alex was one of the main producers on HS1 and did the first performances but not tour or Fine Line.

[mosaicrecords]

Jazz Foundation of America Rallies Industry Leaders to Support COVID-19 Relief

More help appears to be on the way for beleaguered jazz musicians sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Jazz Foundation of America is assembling a coalition of record labels, charitable foundations and online platforms including Amazon Music and Apple Music, in support of its COVID-19 Musicians’ Emergency Fund. And there is more to come, as Brian Zimmerman relates in JAZZIZ.

-Nick Moy

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[thebonesofhoudini]

One of the best things about not being signed to a major and being independent is you can release music whenever you want because you are not under any contractual obligation to any entity.

Artists, bands, musicians, rappers, singers....only sign to a major or a record company if you believe they can help take whatever movement you already got established to the next level.

Just cause you got signed doesnt mean anything. The label still got to take their cut. That advance is not free money, the label got to recoup. And if you can't make that money back...guess what you are in debt.

It's 2020 and cats still signing SLAVE deals out here. These 360 deals where the record company takes a percentage of anything you do that they can profit from: shows, merch, licensing, etc. Then when shit goes sour they on IG or Twitter going public with their discontent with their current situation. I've seen it happen way too many times.

When I was teenager all the way up until my late 20s in the mid to late 90s all the way up yo the late 2000s/early 2010s I would just marvel at how many hot acts that I would see on MTV/VH1/BET with music videos, dominating the Billboard charts, seemingly everywhere one year and nowhere the next...and I would wonder "what happened"?

The number one reason is bad business on the artist part and the labels taking advantage of that.

If you knew how much money labels take from artists for some of the most miniscule things you can think of (like breakage fees for example for physical copies of records, cds, that would get shipped to stores...and in the digital/streaming age those still exist) you would probably think that the music industry is just not it...and continue getting that education, that degree, those certifications, or whatever.

Sometimes it is just better to stay independent and establish your own brand, your own imprint, and have longevity...then to just sign your soul away to a bloodsucking record contract just to be hot for 3-5 years max and completely fall off the face of the earth afterwards.

Artistic integrity and individuality don't make dollars in the music industry and doesnt make sense (cents) to record companies. These labels will deadass sign you to a 2 year contract just to keep you on the shelf while they develop another artist who's going to take your place. These labels will sign you to a contract just for you to sell your songs, your beats, your image, your everything to another artist. These labels will sign you and tell you that you have to completely change everything about your sound and image to reflect the current musical landscape just to make them more money. Cause they don't view music as art, they are capitalists, they only care about the bottom line at the end of the day. Alot of these record companies are continuing to lose money by the second so they stay getting absorbed by larger companies to stay afloat. Some of your favorite "independent" labels are actually distributed through larger companies you would never think of.

And I know alot of young dudes out there think that if they get signed thats a meal ticket to absolute success. Like I've been doing music 22 going on 23 years now. I've met people who got signed one year, had their music played on the radio the same year, and the next year they were back in the hood were they were before they got signed.

Don't let the smoke and mirrors fool you and all that glitters is not gold.

Sometimes its just better to stay independent and build your own brand up and continue to establish a legacy. Keep that in mind.

[jaygabler]

In case you don't recognize Seymour Stein's name, the cover of his book tells you why you should read it: it's "the autobiography of America's greatest living record man." In the prologue, he goes into further detail. "I'm the man who signed the Ramones, Talking Heads, Madonna, the Pretenders, the Dead Boys, the Replacements, Ice-T, Brian Wilson, k.d. lang, Lou Reed, Throwing Muses, and many more."

As Stein acknowledges, he isn't a producer like Quincy Jones or Phil Spector. He can't play an instrument, can't run a mixing board. He's an A&R man: artists and repertoire, a.k.a. talent spotting. His job is, and has always been, to find the best up-and-coming acts and ink them to record deals. Is he the greatest living practitioner of that art? Maybe or maybe not, but there's no question that he's an industry legend.

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[amalgamatednervous]

Frank Zappa explaining how some of the most avant garde music got released by some of the most old school ‘square’ record execs, and how it was the younger hipsters who started closing those doors.  Amazing.

(via Frank Zappa - Decline of the Music Industry - YouTube)