guetta makes his money off artists that use him as a producer. When people think of the tracks he does, they think Black eye peas, not guetta. But he doesn't have a product that is consistent so he can't do what arttists do nor can he be marketed like a pop act is.
tehlord
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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
guetta makes his money off artists that use him as a producer. When people think of the tracks he does, they think Black eye peas, not guetta. But he doesn't have a product that is consistent so he can't do what arttists do nor can he be marketed like a pop act is.
Another factor that you may not know about in the US is that his name cropped up on a Ciroen advert in Europe several years ago, and because the ad was pretty cool and the soundtrack was 'pretty hip' for the time it instantly became a bit viral.
Woony
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Originally posted by EddieZilker
I honestly don't understand why more people don't just make downloads available. A quick survey of posts complaining about personal revenues says 99% of producers are operating at a loss, anyway. If a song really ever takes off, it would be easy to get it sold and sound-cloud limits the number of downloads so it's not like giving it away distorts the market for a song any more than piracy already does.
There's pretty big stigma against free music (not entirely unjustified if you ask me). I think it's more for psychological reasons. People will view music they pirate in a better light than music they got for free legally, as weird as it sounds.
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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
That is the only way you will ever make a decent living from selling your work. Ask any publicist, and they will tell you the same. You cannot sell a producer.
While this may be true for today, in the 90s some guy you had never seen on TV could shift thousands and thousands of copies if the music was good.
Beatflux
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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
guetta makes his money off artists that use him as a producer. When people think of the tracks he does, they think Black eye peas, not guetta. But he doesn't have a product that is consistent so he can't do what arttists do nor can he be marketed like a pop act is.
He plays out though, so he's doing the whole EDM thing.
Photoelectric
Hi!
As the question I have kinda fits to this topic, I try to post it in this topic instead of creating a new one.
The "rules" of how to send a track to a label are clear for me.
What I would like to know is:
There's a kind of shizophrenic thinking in the theoretical world of sending demos. One the one hand you can read everywhere - and i understand this point - that labels tend not to sign tracks that already are around in the internet in whatever downloadable form (soundcloud etc.). On the other hand, it should be one of your best arguments, if Armin or whoever has played a track of yours in his show. So it seems to be a good way to send tracks to important dj's out there, because if they play it, it is some kind of public reference, which tells the label that a track meets the public flavour.
So my question is: Should I send tracks to well known producers before sending it to labels, and if yes: how should I do this?
Thanks in advance for your helpful comments!
Photoelectric
Deillon
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Originally posted by Photoelectric
So my question is: Should I send tracks to well known producers before sending it to labels, and if yes: how should I do this?
A decent label will do this for you, they will promote your release by sending the promo (your track) to various DJ's (your genre). These DJ's then decide to play it in their livesets.
Photoelectric
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Originally posted by Deillon
A decent label will do this for you, they will promote your release by sending the promo (your track) to various DJ's (your genre). These DJ's then decide to play it in their livesets.
Yeah, I know that a good label would do this. I was more asking, if it makes any sense to send it to Dj's and hope that a track is played by them in order to have the possibility to tell any label: "this is my track, you better sign it, cause look who has already playlisted this great track!"...I mean: how big is the chance of my track being listened to by a well known Dj when I send it over to him? Anyone who has any experience with this?
Woony
If you are a no-name, getting them to listen to your track is mostly down to luck. Some are crazy enough to listen to all promos they receive, most will probably randomly skim through and a few have somebody else who does the first listen.
But if they happen to listen to your track and it's good, they'll play it.
Deillon
Interesting approach, it might work. However I do wanna add that if said DJ plays the track the label would've accepted it anyways, it's not a popularity contest IMO.
