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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Mar 16, 2022 ^^
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Bruh, for someone that talks about scams and scummy practices its really bold of you yo promote a "Crypto powered" service. As a software developer I know how beneficial decentralized technology could be, but right now its just a waste land of scammers that call themselves "Entrepreneurs". Crypto right now isn't a way of gaining independence from controlled currency, but an easier mean to scam and steal.
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Watching this boils my blood. Thankfully, the label we've been with recently let us go when we asked them to. They released us out of our contract as we had such a mentally draining time recording our second album. They're some of the good people. But the label we were with when releasing our first album, made so much off us - it's a joke. Our Spotify has earned nearly 300k, and my bandmate and I have seen about 10k of that each. When recouping the advance and expenses, the label took only our 50% to cover the recouping, and their 50% was income. So by the time we started making any money off our music, they had earned double. It's set up for artists to fail and it's heartbreaking. (What's even more frustrating, is the song that blew up on Spotify and made them all their money - WE actually paid for, as they didn't want it on the EP and we did. Kill me.) Luckily, I stay clear from any third parties now and make a very decent living off music. I won't go near labels or publishers again. They're just pie pinchers. You can do EVERYTHING yourself now - so why give your art away? Never. Again.
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The music industry is truly DEMONIC. They do everything they can to push away those who are TRULY talented, in lieu of easily manipulatable, auto-tunable, no talent low lifes that can be controlled by the industry. Then, once in, the industry goes to great lengths to make sure the artist brings in the most profit, while they squelch their talent. And EVERYTHING comes out of the artists pocket : air travel, hotels, catering, payroll of the myriad people working for/with them, booking fees, manager fees, you name it. Then, because albums/records/CDs are now passe, the promotions team puts the artist on brutally long-winded tour dates, where they don't even have time to catch a breath between shows, which are usually back-to-back-to-back night after night, making the artist exhausted and soon worthless on stage. Then, when they're used up, and squeezed out, they're kicked to the curb to turn around and find a new sucker for the evil same ride. It looks oh-so-glamorous from the outside, but it's a nightmare for the artist once they've made it. It's truly a wonder ANY artist can make any money at all the way things are nowadays.
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As much as artists don't want to learn the business - they have to. Take a play from Lauv. He started his own label and built his own team around him to build up a business structure that they mostly control - he still has a publishing deal but that's for writing only and not distribution of his own music as an artist.
Would you rather have 1 million fans and make hardly any money or have 100k fans and make a killer living?
Don't need to have a million fans to make a fantastic career when you own 100% of what you do. But sadly most creatives hate the business side so much that they are willing to make a deal with the devil to avoid it.
The industry is changing so much that smart artists and creators are finding people to either partner with them or give them a percentage to run their business. That is way smarter than giving away masters.
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The crazy thing is that Kpop labels are actually very transparent about all of this happening.
Once a person gets cut off from a Kpop label they canāt use their stage name (itās owned by the company), they canāt re-debut with the same band name (also owned by the company - see Gfriend after being cut off from Source Music/Hybe), and itās unclear whether they can sing their own songs (see Hyuna after being cut from Cube).
Even worse: loads of Kpop artists have repeatedly come forward to say they werenāt paid until after 3/4/5 years after debut. Thereās the whole trainee debt too, but everything Jake said about the ālabel/writer/producer cutā also applies.
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