The Music Industry Guide

We strongly recommend that you read through our advisory text. It might take you 10-15 minutes, but could save you years in your effort to become successful. We do not underestimate the complexity of the music business, and neither should you: it is home to more traps than opportunities. So if you seriously intend to make it, please take your time and read through.

Myth no.1: You must have contacts to make it.

No, contacts are not a prerequisite, although you will need to make them. The difference is more significant than it seems. It is not the case that all successful people happen to have had a friend or relative within the business - they built up their contacts from scratch, as you will have to do. But don´t despair, it isn´t as difficult as you think, you just have to work out which path to take and who to contact. Who is it in the jungle that will prove to be most useful to you?

Myth no.2: A record contract - wow!

Not wow, but so what? A record contract only means that a record gets manufactured. 99% of all record contracts end up being little more than a few boxes sent to the rubbish dump. A HIT, on the other hand, warrants a wow! What really matters is how your release is taken care of, how it is implemented in the market.

You might say "I don´t care, as long as I make a record, I´m happy". However, afterwards it doesn´t usually feel like that. No matter what your objectives are, a record contract without a hit is a missed opportunity, the opportunity to establish yourself with an audience and reap financial benefits, which may enable you to work with what you are passionate about for the rest of your life.

We assume that you put pride and effort into your music and want it to be maximized with a release that does it credit. We assume that, even if you say that you are not commercially minded or driven, you prefer to reach as many people as possible with your music. Otherwise, you probably wouldn´t have looked for a website like this in the first place. Hopefully, you will realize that it is crucial to cover as much ground as you can before approaching your audience. Almost everyone fails to do this. Depressing? Not really. This lack of preparation is usually due to bad management, which can be corrected - starting here and now.

Bad management can be due to two factors:
1. The administrative side is not efficient enough.
2. The administration is efficient, but not tailored to the music it is intended to release.

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Reproduced and adapted by kind permission of hitquarters.com

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