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.

The majors suffocate talent are are composed, like most of the industry, of dull people; dullness is infectiious and kills.
But they are also the only way at present to capitalise on success. So a hit turns into a huge global smash quite often.
Every other route you can do OK (think Dizzee) but without making real numbers and these days that's where decent profits and popular attention lie.
If I were 30 years younger I'd start, own and run a truly innovative and successful global corporation finding, recording, breaking and making the most of great music.
But sadly I'm now 66 and no longer have the energy.

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

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).

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!

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.

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.