For what it's worth it's generally common practice for comp
tracks to be licensed from other labels and appear on full lengths.
Get the two labels talking.
-a
On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 06:05 PM, Shawn Hatfield wrote:
quoted 53 lines well to start. discussing the labels business on an open email forum is
> well to start. discussing the labels business on an open email forum is
> generally a bad idea and may cost you as much as not getting a release
> with them at all.
>
> _twerk
>
> On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 01:36 PM, Charles Freeman wrote:
>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I have a situation that I'm kind of perplexed about and I thought I'd
>> ask
>> you folks for any advice you might have.
>>
>> I've been talking to a few different labels about releasing some of my
>> stuff. one label ***** is saying that they want to release an album
>> at the beginning of next year. another label ***** wants to put one
>> of my
>> tracks on a comp that they have in production right now.
>>
>> the issue is that ***** wants exclusivity for the track that they
>> use. the
>> track they want is one of my best and I really feel that it should be
>> on
>> my first album as does ******. also they are only going to give me 30
>> copy's of the comp and no money. there are some good names that are
>> going
>> to be appearing on the comp and they say that it's going to have great
>> distribution, so it may be good promotion for me. another thing is
>> that
>> this comp is right now whereas the album is off in the future and
>> isn't
>> confirmed. also the material that would be on the album isn't
>> complete. I
>> still would need to write around a half hour of new stuff which
>> *******
>> hasn't heard yet.
>>
>> does anyone have any advice? I've never dealt with record labels
>> before so
>> I'm kind of confused. also does anyone know anything about either of
>> these
>> record labels? advice on which would be better to get on-board with.
>>
>> -thanks, charlie
>> http://mp3.com/groundchuckles
>
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