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Topic History of: Sandi Thom Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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DJones
From Pete Townshend
Red
it's a #1 single though, surely good for Sandi and everyone involved with her. No such thing as bad publicity, and if the figures were massaged a little for hype reasons, the public are certainly swallowing it hook, line and sinker, so a good time had by all I'd say.
But I do see the poser about the point of signing to a major after creating that much buzz-I'd be inclined to start my own label if I was her.
Kev
Yeah come on Martin, spill yer guts
Also, how do you pronounce Thom? If it's like "Tom" then I would say that a Sandi Thom sounds like a crap on a beach God I'm so funny.
david
It's because major labels know how to market and sell music. Plus they have the money and employees to make sure all stops are pulled in order to get a sales and airplay success.
Majors are fantastic in creating big regional and global stars - they can get your record on the radio.
For an independent label that say only sells over the internet - it's near impossible to get commercial radio airplay and ABC/BBC radio play.
Indie's don't usually have budgets for video promo clips and don't have a spend budget for press advertising.
But being an independent artist or label is still damn satisfying and a good way to get your music out there but you'll probably miss out on radio airplay
and reaching a large audience.
Let's face it, it's extremely difficult to get an artist signed up to a major - a major will normaly have to invest 250 - 500 K in launching an artists first record which is hell of a lot of risk capital.
I would say for any career artist if you have the opportunity to sign with a big hitter label then do so, same with publishing. If however there's nothing on the horizon being offered then I say do it yourself and be an independent. Don't sit back and wait for 10 years for a major label to contact you -
you have to be productive now and if necessary do it independently.
David
oh dear
I think we've gathered you're somehow involved martin, just let everyone know to what extent and stop alluding to it!