How to Get Your Music on iTunes
You can now get your music on iTunes WITHOUT any record label support.
You, as an individual, can put your music into the same exact database that all of the major labels put all of their professional singers' music into.
This is the obsolete music industry equivalence to having your CD right next to the CDs of your favorite artists on the shelves of Target, Best Buy, Walmart, Tower Records, or any other retailer that you used to buy CDs from.
This is literally a music business revolution that dilutes the massive power of record labels while empowering the individual artist.
Now that the individual has just as much "digital shelf space" as any other artist in the world, the individual artist with enough popularity can get 100% of the sales instead of just a small 8-18% that you would get from your record label.
Of course record labels still have much more production and marketing power than you, but the fact that you can now sell your music to the entire world all by yourself is just a complete revolution that record labels don't want you to learn about.
I have recently been working with an artist who did all of this on his own personal budget.
He ended up generating hundreds of thousands of downloads off iTunes and was soon getting calls from MTV asking permission to put his music in the background of shows such as Laguna Beach, The Hills, and Next.
All of this attention attracted FOX news to interview him about his success.
He did it all on his own by uploading his songs onto iTunes, just like a record label would have done for him - but he did it himself and got all of the profits for himself.
In today's world, record labels are for the huge artists that can't possibly manage their career by themselves.
They need a team of people for management, a team of people for touring, a team of people all of that kind of stuff.
The individual artist, however, can now take control of their career and actually start one on their own.
Most record labels want to pickup an artist who has already somewhat established themselves because it can be a big waste of time and money to sign an unknown artist and spend millions of dollars on promotions, marketing, production, etc and then end up selling no records.
Colbie Caillet is a good example of this - her song "Bubbly" got hundreds of thousands of downloads and the word started spreading about her and then record labels put an eye on her, and now she has a record deal.
She proved herself as an artist that people wanted to listen to, and that is exactly what record labels look for.
You, as an individual, can put your music into the same exact database that all of the major labels put all of their professional singers' music into.
This is the obsolete music industry equivalence to having your CD right next to the CDs of your favorite artists on the shelves of Target, Best Buy, Walmart, Tower Records, or any other retailer that you used to buy CDs from.
This is literally a music business revolution that dilutes the massive power of record labels while empowering the individual artist.
Now that the individual has just as much "digital shelf space" as any other artist in the world, the individual artist with enough popularity can get 100% of the sales instead of just a small 8-18% that you would get from your record label.
Of course record labels still have much more production and marketing power than you, but the fact that you can now sell your music to the entire world all by yourself is just a complete revolution that record labels don't want you to learn about.
I have recently been working with an artist who did all of this on his own personal budget.
He ended up generating hundreds of thousands of downloads off iTunes and was soon getting calls from MTV asking permission to put his music in the background of shows such as Laguna Beach, The Hills, and Next.
All of this attention attracted FOX news to interview him about his success.
He did it all on his own by uploading his songs onto iTunes, just like a record label would have done for him - but he did it himself and got all of the profits for himself.
In today's world, record labels are for the huge artists that can't possibly manage their career by themselves.
They need a team of people for management, a team of people for touring, a team of people all of that kind of stuff.
The individual artist, however, can now take control of their career and actually start one on their own.
Most record labels want to pickup an artist who has already somewhat established themselves because it can be a big waste of time and money to sign an unknown artist and spend millions of dollars on promotions, marketing, production, etc and then end up selling no records.
Colbie Caillet is a good example of this - her song "Bubbly" got hundreds of thousands of downloads and the word started spreading about her and then record labels put an eye on her, and now she has a record deal.
She proved herself as an artist that people wanted to listen to, and that is exactly what record labels look for.
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