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:
quoted 35 lines Hi all!
> 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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