Originally Posted by Dayson
I"m with Greg!

I believe Songwriters who believe their music has real value beyond what some failed business model might slap on it will fight this kind of thinking at every turn.

One thing I don't understand is how these Failing Business Models continue to get Songwriters to work against their own best interest, I really am dumbfounded on this.
Having millions upon millions of steams of different Artists will never be enough to break any Artist away from the pack.

One thing about Radio, is that is has such a tight list, with constant rotations, your music can register in Fans minds enough to want to buy it after several repeats.
Granted the tight list can work against you if you are not on it and trying to break into it, but that's the nature of the beast.-Dana


You can think your music has value all you like, it may or it may not, but it doesnt matter what we think. what matters is being heard, and what the public thinks.

I think alot of stuff on the radio has no value, but it's on the radio, obviously it has some value.

You have to get away from this idea of entitlement for your music. There are hundreds of thousands of artists on cdbaby, they cant all make money.

And none can make money if nobody knows they are there. Radio is impossible, if you think your music is worth waiting to get on commercial radio that's fine.

Have to ask ourselves, it it better for our music to stay parked in neutral forever, or is getting a listen the goal?

I had a single song contract offered many years ago. It was a startup company I had MAILED a cassette to. The letter head had a typo on it!

The lawyer I went to told me the royalty rate was a ripoff and that the company was probably grabbing at straws to make anything happen, so I passed.

This was 20 years ago maybe, the cassette stands on my shelf collecting dust. What was the point of turning it down?

If you have nothing to lose which most of us dont, it can only help to do it.