How To Musicians Get Signed Onto Record Labels?
I love making music and singing, and I wanted to go professional, but what I don’t get it how (for example) Aly & AJ got signed on to Hollywood Record?
I know that Flyleaf performed live for a record label, and they got signed, but is there another way?
Please explain!
November 4th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Companies Don’t Sign Artist who cannot almost run the show on their Own.
1. Artist must be competent in making sure they can produce quality music easily and efficiently. No Company wants to sign an artist that doesn’t have everything together and ends up becoming unsellable.
2. Artist Must develop a good fan base in order to show the companies that they have a market and only need a little more light to shine.
Look at Noah and the Whales and how Five Years Time blew them around the world. One Hit can do that for you.
3. Buzz!!! In order to get a market or fan base one has to generate buzz or get their name out there. Get people excited. The producers and others will find you this way.
It’s the same as when scouts find talent in High School Football. The Stats make them known.
4. Buy supplies and build a small team to go out and find events to play for, open mics, talent shows, etc. Sell CD’S, pass out fliers, Do autographs, act confident (while staying humble)
Never Quit your day job because even if you are good, I know many artist that will destroy the artist on the hip hop scene and they can’t catch money for the bus.
Starving artist can never really explode off the scene because they eat up their music money with personal finances. Keep your music money in your music. Period.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
ok heres the bestest way i know:
You know the website youtube.com well sign up for that and start recording videos of you singing and stuff like that! but sing popular songs so when people go to listen to them on youtube then they will see you’re video and watch it! well so after a bunch of videos that you’ve posted you’ll start to get popular and end up becoming famus! and mabe someone big and popular will see you’re video they will ofer you a record deal or something like that! enjoy! it will also take some work to get to the top so be patient. -cheerqt.101
November 4th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
to get signed, you have to be found
play everywhere, anywhere and all the time
someone is bound to be there sometime who knows someone who knows someone….
you will be found and contacted if you truly have the talent, don’t worry…just put yourself out there
November 5th, 2009 at 2:23 am
flyleaf is good i saw them open for Cold in September 05
November 5th, 2009 at 2:26 am
they were found by an agent