Recording artist
 | Performs this seem like you? You have a mini-recording studio in a tiny space...out of the distractions of family. Or, can be your laptop/PC recording central? Do you need to hold back until your family is dreaming to get some creative time in? It's 2am and you're simply inside the moment, strumming, tinkling about the keyboard, putting down some beats, singing in your screen and posting on the internet. "Man, this sounds much better than what's about the radio", you tell yourself. Only if...
R&b artist Recording a 10-track CD costs about $30,000 around the low end and upwards of $50,000 about the high end to create; and you're simply thinking it's never going to happen. If only... You're google search starts. To consider alternatives. R&b artist Below are a few with the questions I hear each day: How will i get the money I need to get my album going? My credit is shot and i also can barely pay the bills, what exactly are my options? No one's ever heard of me, what's it planning to cost to advertise on my own? How do I get the attention of your Major Label? It's tough to keep up with all the technology changes, where do I invest my own time? I have to have a great singer or guitarist or lyrics, but how can one manage to hire someone? I'll answer these questions, however, some stats to place this all in perspective. According to Netcraft you can find over 230 million live websites active by June 2009. What percentage are dedicated to music alone? Hard to say - but I can tell you that MySpace claims 27% of all their pages (110 million active pages) are music pages. That's about $ 30 million recording artists, primarily independent or unsigned on MySpace alone. Using the MySpace percentage on all live websites (yes, I am aware it isn't scientifically accurate - but I'm painting an image here), that would infer that 6.2 million websites are devoted to the music industry. Which is a large amount of websites. You'll need to be really clever to acquire attention when 36 million other artists are trying to do the same thing! Some recording artists want celebrity, but most only want to earn a snug living wage in the one thing that produces their hearts beat faster, their minds work overtime and puts a grin on people's faces. There's hope! |
