BAY AREA artists and your royalties?
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My L-Love "They Love This Heat" single featuring Messy Marv and Matt Blaque is getting finger printed now so I will have to keep track of the spins, and royalties.
I should of got it finger printed earlier because if has been getting spun since the day after it was mixed down in ALABAMA and none of those spins will be counted.
I should of got it finger printed earlier because if has been getting spun since the day after it was mixed down in ALABAMA and none of those spins will be counted.
Who is best to go with for mechanical royalties?? Do you have to negotiate points on an album or produce a certain amount of tracks AND HAVE A CONTRACT to receive any type of royaties from album sales. And does it work for independent labels as it does with major labels??
And does it work out here? Because from the looks of things around here it doesnt seem like a lot of artists do any type of paperwork with anyone.
Any game for a young gun? Holla
And does it work out here? Because from the looks of things around here it doesnt seem like a lot of artists do any type of paperwork with anyone.
Any game for a young gun? Holla
Niggas need to leave the thizz pills and weed alone and pick up some damn books!... Everyone wants to be the next 40 or Short, but NO ONE wants to learn the business. And I swear if they did the overall quality of the music coming out the bay area would shoot up exponentially. Maybe cats would actually learn how to write songs?
As far as your Mechanical Royalties, work that out with the people of whom you are working with, same with your points. Come to an agreement on your own.
Oh yeah if anyone is looking to clear samples or do covers, search the "Harry Fox Agency".
And you don't have to have a contract to get your royalties from your song, just make sure that your credit is posted inside of the cd of which your work is featured and send that cd to your publishing company along with a letter explaining that you would like to register your work on the project. Sometimes that is good enough, sometimes they will send you another form to fillout (mostly if you wrote the songs lyrics).
I am typing this whil feeding my 8-Month Old her Baby Cereal so I hope I didn't miss anything that you were asking.
Keep it pushin' BAY AREA.
Oh yeah if anyone is looking to clear samples or do covers, search the "Harry Fox Agency".
And you don't have to have a contract to get your royalties from your song, just make sure that your credit is posted inside of the cd of which your work is featured and send that cd to your publishing company along with a letter explaining that you would like to register your work on the project. Sometimes that is good enough, sometimes they will send you another form to fillout (mostly if you wrote the songs lyrics).
I am typing this whil feeding my 8-Month Old her Baby Cereal so I hope I didn't miss anything that you were asking.
Keep it pushin' BAY AREA.
Something else that I have going on that I know is against everything that you have been taught since you have entered the Game is that I am starting up a new COMPILATION ALBUM SERIES that you have to pay to get on. You have to pay $20. The compilations aren't really for making money, but they are to give artists that don't have the money to press up their own cds the chance to start a track record. I will be also spending "MY OWN" money to send the compilations to Major Label A&R's, Distribution Companies and Radio Stations across the country.
Like I said it goes against what everyone has been taught and it isn't for everyone, but it is the chance for some people to get put on. Mostly "HIP HOP" style artists have been submitting tracks. I am going to try to do a Series of 12 of them. So 12 Compilations and the project is done and over with.
Details:
You know of the record label AT HOME RECORDS and its success. Well their division of the company called O.N.E has a service that offers Hip Hop/Rap artists a chance to be heard throughout the Nation. Our Compilation Series is a tool of which a striving artist can use to get themself heard by Hundreds of Thousands of potential music buyers and also radio station dj's and Major Label A&R's.
There is a $20 submission fee. Also all songs must be sample free and be mixed down to INDUSTRY QUALITY.
A maximum of 25,000 barcoded store ready physical copies will be printed up.
Copies of each Compilation Series will be shopped to Independent Distributors.
Copies of each Compilation Series will be serviced to Radio Stations throughout the country.
Copies of each Compilation Series will be mailed to Major Label A&R Managers.
This is your chance as a serious artist to get your music and name into the hands and minds of the people of whom they need to be in.
Question is? ARE YOU READY FOR YOUR BIG BREAK?
Paypal $20 Submission Fee To: [email protected]
Send your Track to (or if you don't have paypal, also your Money Order):
At Home Records
attn: MIXON
P.O. BOX 848
Oakley, CA 94561
Website:
www.cdbaby.com/llove2
Like I said it goes against what everyone has been taught and it isn't for everyone, but it is the chance for some people to get put on. Mostly "HIP HOP" style artists have been submitting tracks. I am going to try to do a Series of 12 of them. So 12 Compilations and the project is done and over with.
Details:
You know of the record label AT HOME RECORDS and its success. Well their division of the company called O.N.E has a service that offers Hip Hop/Rap artists a chance to be heard throughout the Nation. Our Compilation Series is a tool of which a striving artist can use to get themself heard by Hundreds of Thousands of potential music buyers and also radio station dj's and Major Label A&R's.
There is a $20 submission fee. Also all songs must be sample free and be mixed down to INDUSTRY QUALITY.
A maximum of 25,000 barcoded store ready physical copies will be printed up.
Copies of each Compilation Series will be shopped to Independent Distributors.
Copies of each Compilation Series will be serviced to Radio Stations throughout the country.
Copies of each Compilation Series will be mailed to Major Label A&R Managers.
This is your chance as a serious artist to get your music and name into the hands and minds of the people of whom they need to be in.
Question is? ARE YOU READY FOR YOUR BIG BREAK?
Paypal $20 Submission Fee To: [email protected]
Send your Track to (or if you don't have paypal, also your Money Order):
At Home Records
attn: MIXON
P.O. BOX 848
Oakley, CA 94561
Website:
www.cdbaby.com/llove2
I thought that this might be of use to Bay Area artists trying to break into the Asian Sales Market:
http://www.musictrax.jp/index.php?t=jr_FAQ
http://www.musictrax.jp/index.php?t=jr_FAQ
Thanks for sharing that info fam. I just had a Dj from Japan hit me up a few weeks ago on myspace wanting to buy some of my Cali Green Cd's that I put out in 2001. I was surprised that dude got his hands on a my compilation. I asked where he got it and he said Amazon and he was telling me how he wanted to sell that cd in his store. There's a demand for Bay Area music over there from what he was telling me. Thanks again for sharing that info.
