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Post by travelrocks24 on Jul 3, 2019 4:19:55 GMT -5
Is it just me, or do a lot of unsigned/independent artists have no idea how to market themselves? Not everyone is on social media and not everyone "stalks" every single account they are following. Some artists do not advertise gigs on Bands in Town or their own website. Some artists don't have e-mail lists to subscribe to. These artists don't realize that you don't know when a fan of yours may be in Nashville (or elsewhere) that you could be performing at. The running joke about Nashville is it is a 10 year town, but some artists aren't doing what they should be doing to get traction to get a publishing deal and eventually a record deal. I wish we'd keep it much simpler. Artists would just send the music to their local radio stations, which would then play the records they receive, test the response with their local audiences, and play the top testers more until they caught on nationally. We don't need corporate record labels at all. All they do is take artists' money and force them to record garbage they don't actually enjoy, then force the crap on radio using money, name recognition, and other tomfoolery that these rich labels use to manipulate radio into giving songs more spins. From time to time, an independent artist will get on a podcast or get on the radio to plug something, but I wonder, does the music get played in the days following the appearance? I would think if a song gets played ten times in a week, it would pop up on the stations Mediabase list. An artist spends the gas money (sometimes hotel money) to do a radio appearance, get their few minutes, and the music gets played once, and the radio station moves on. I just don't get this. I am convinced these music directors haven't been a week in Nashville and going to writers rounds. What annoys me is the music directors are so intent on playing the same things over and over again, or if a big name comes out with something new, it gets played 50 times on release week. What is stopping radio from being creative? Some people work in medical offices and pick a radio station to play for patients to listen to in the lobby, and maybe if the radio station picked an hour during the play all new music, people would pick that hour to listen. I know I would. Some radio stations will play 80-100 minutes of commercial free music in the morning in an attempt to "wake people up". I give The Highway credit for playing newer artists, but some (Caroline Jones is one example) will get airplay on multiple songs to see what sticks, instead of pushing one song. Without naming names, I looked at one artist's website recently, and you can't get on a mailing list without paying for it! This is not a big name at all. I get fan clubs that cost $30 a year, but those are for well known artists. I have been to over 50 concerts in the last few years, and frankly, some of those artists that are not well enough have more talent than the big names that get over produced songs. |
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Post by collinkottke on Jul 3, 2019 15:29:51 GMT -5
A couple times a week, I think about the fact that Jerrod Niemann could've been a fairly big star in the genre if they would've picked almost virtually anything other than "Donkey" as the follow up to "Drink To That All Night". I love the High Noon album and even like "Donkey" but it never should have been sent to country radio. There's songs on the album that would have done great following "Drink To That All Night", I think "Buzz Back Girl", "Day Drinkin'" and "Refill" could've all done real well for a couple quick examples.
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Post by Wackadoodle on Jul 3, 2019 16:24:32 GMT -5
A couple times a week, I think about the fact that Jerrod Niemann could've been a fairly big star in the genre if they would've picked almost virtually anything other than "Donkey" as the follow up to "Drink To That All Night". I love the High Noon album and even like "Donkey" but it never should have been sent to country radio. There's songs on the album that would have done great following "Drink To That All Night", I think "Buzz Back Girl", "Day Drinkin'" and "Refill" could've all done real well for a couple quick examples. Also "Space" would've been a huge hit. So many great songs on that album. But instead we got donkey.  |
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