I made a statment regarding the end of labels as we know it and
MINDSET responded with
Strong statement. The record label will always have something that indie artists don't have. A big budget. Reality is, if that were to happen, than the whole industry would collapse. Then you just have a million musicians cluttered in a small space that you would have to sift through. Then, what would happen is that all the musicians income would probably decrease sufficiently and then the extinction of paid musicians lol.
50cal says
why do labels exist? what purposes do they serve? I will keep it short..
Labels supplied a demand for consumers to purchase music from all corners of the globe supplying the promotion and distribution needs, with their financial resources that individual artists dont have....and so on.
Now a label would normally put out a handfull of releases a year in hopes that a few would do big numbers to raise their profit margin from the loss they take on the rest....We all have taken note of record stores closing such as tower records/wherehouse /etc etc...you may have also noticed a decline in sales in the industry across all genres...though there are a few artsist with the big sales.
So whats happening? Is music that bad that no one is buying like they were only a few years ago?I think not(although with the widespread use of cheap software their is alot of bad music....even some retail releases)Are we in a recession?Is this the next depression?Although Im far from rich myself I think our economy is doing alright(of course this could be debated) All Im saying decrease in sales isnt probably due to our economy.
So what is it? I personally beleive filesharing on the net is the biggest culprit and even though the R.I.I.A(Is that the correct acronym?) crack down on moms and pop stores from selling independent releases without barcodes or manufacture adress.Remember a few years back(probably about 6 yrs my memory aint what it used to be) the big crackdown and lawsuit with napster...the music industry still flourished..but filesharing is becoming much more common then at that time.More housholds now have a computer compared to 10 years ago...maybe even 5 years ago.
So why do I think the Big machine(labels) as we know it is gonna change.Just like alot of companies are doing its my opinion that they will consolidate and buy each other out...and so there will be less big labels..imagine if interscope bought everyone out....artists releases will be by priority meaning the known artists like 50 cent and eminem and Dr dre and game...the proven best sellers(I dont know just an example) they will come out before the new artists and being they dont wanna compete with themselves 50 cent and dre wont be released in the same month..so this means less artists will be put..less resources for artist development...now also remember as i gave examples of dre/game/50 rember the consolidation..well fantasia needs to be released mariah carey/jay-z(get my point)
So if you remeber when I said this
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Labels supplied a demand for consumers to purchase music from all corners of the globe supplying the promotion and distribution needs, with their financial resources that individual artists dont have....
well more and more sales will be downloads so artists arent gonna need the distribution...It doesnt cost hardly anything to have your own online store and can even let other sites ell your music...so that aint gonna cost lil or nothing..You can afford online promotion alot can be done with investing time by personally spreading the word on major music forums...(or any site forums)wich will only get bigger.......so why get signed sit on the shelf..when it can be done for lil or nothing?..these views are just my opinion...
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MINDSET responded with
Strong statement. The record label will always have something that indie artists don't have. A big budget. Reality is, if that were to happen, than the whole industry would collapse. Then you just have a million musicians cluttered in a small space that you would have to sift through. Then, what would happen is that all the musicians income would probably decrease sufficiently and then the extinction of paid musicians lol.
50cal says
why do labels exist? what purposes do they serve? I will keep it short..
Labels supplied a demand for consumers to purchase music from all corners of the globe supplying the promotion and distribution needs, with their financial resources that individual artists dont have....and so on.
Now a label would normally put out a handfull of releases a year in hopes that a few would do big numbers to raise their profit margin from the loss they take on the rest....We all have taken note of record stores closing such as tower records/wherehouse /etc etc...you may have also noticed a decline in sales in the industry across all genres...though there are a few artsist with the big sales.
So whats happening? Is music that bad that no one is buying like they were only a few years ago?I think not(although with the widespread use of cheap software their is alot of bad music....even some retail releases)Are we in a recession?Is this the next depression?Although Im far from rich myself I think our economy is doing alright(of course this could be debated) All Im saying decrease in sales isnt probably due to our economy.
So what is it? I personally beleive filesharing on the net is the biggest culprit and even though the R.I.I.A(Is that the correct acronym?) crack down on moms and pop stores from selling independent releases without barcodes or manufacture adress.Remember a few years back(probably about 6 yrs my memory aint what it used to be) the big crackdown and lawsuit with napster...the music industry still flourished..but filesharing is becoming much more common then at that time.More housholds now have a computer compared to 10 years ago...maybe even 5 years ago.
So why do I think the Big machine(labels) as we know it is gonna change.Just like alot of companies are doing its my opinion that they will consolidate and buy each other out...and so there will be less big labels..imagine if interscope bought everyone out....artists releases will be by priority meaning the known artists like 50 cent and eminem and Dr dre and game...the proven best sellers(I dont know just an example) they will come out before the new artists and being they dont wanna compete with themselves 50 cent and dre wont be released in the same month..so this means less artists will be put..less resources for artist development...now also remember as i gave examples of dre/game/50 rember the consolidation..well fantasia needs to be released mariah carey/jay-z(get my point)
So if you remeber when I said this
Quote:
Labels supplied a demand for consumers to purchase music from all corners of the globe supplying the promotion and distribution needs, with their financial resources that individual artists dont have....
well more and more sales will be downloads so artists arent gonna need the distribution...It doesnt cost hardly anything to have your own online store and can even let other sites ell your music...so that aint gonna cost lil or nothing..You can afford online promotion alot can be done with investing time by personally spreading the word on major music forums...(or any site forums)wich will only get bigger.......so why get signed sit on the shelf..when it can be done for lil or nothing?..these views are just my opinion...
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