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Topic History of: What exactly will YOU do if you had a hit on your hands ?
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Michael	What sort of hit are you talking about, and how far down the line are you? Is it recorded, released or still a demo? Is it artist-reliant or a novelty? Why don't you licence it around the world or get someone known to perform it? There are still lots of ways to turn a shilling.
Mark Etting	I hear you JK and thanks for that ITK. But on a practical level what the hell should we do because from where I am standing it seems the only answer is to walk away from music because there are NO enthusiastic music lovers in the business and everything is being pushed into this one stream. It is as if one person is controlling the entire industry. Perhaps the answer is to give it away for free and destroy the business side of things and once these bozos have gone to join Tesco, then revive the industry all over again.
JK2006	I think the problem these days is finding people with a genuine enthusiasm for music and the energy and ideas to try new ways of breaking it to a wider audience. There's a dearth of this kind of person; in the 60s there were rather too many of us!
DJones	re: the music week story Artist labels work for artists who already are well known (usually because they were signed to major). I don't have the concrete numbers at my fingertip at the moment, but it seems to me that even after a decade of decline the market share of the majors is as high as it ever was (but the market is much smaller).
In The Know	Mark Etting wrote: The general consensus is that the majors are not worth dealing with so if they are not up to the grade who is ? Please make this as constructive as possible. Worth a read ..... www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=...code=1043904&c=2