“While the dominant Hip-Hop media plays into the hands of major label executives who hope to keep the fan-base everlastingly fixated on the most supercilious of spats, rappers are still being swindled, left and right, for all their worth.” Tolu Olorunda
It is funny watching the Internet game especially if you have a big butt and a smile. Urban models that post on Twitter, Face bk, Myspace have tons of opportunities to connect with people and make a shit load of money just on merchandise alone. I think their is a huge market for clothing especially women with full figures and it has been proven with clothing line success of Baby Phat and Apple bottom . But the secret is everybody has access now to creating their own clothing lines because the start up cost are so cheap now http://www.alibaba.com or http://www.cafepress.com. If a woman making porn getting back shots becomes a Multi- millionaire business woman. So can an Urban model showing a little ass can do it to.
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This is not a permanent map this map could change slowly or change rapidly in the Digital landscape of music, but it can still be of help. People have many ways of spreading music online some have a clue some don’t. But if I was an MC or Dj and wanted to put my music out this is what I would do:
Here is an extra one the site is called Tunecore it helps with your digital distribution-http://www.tunecore.com
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There is a lot of places you can get music now especially on the Internet. But sometimes it is hard for music/ record labels, and artist to sometimes grasp ways of making money off their music. One question the music industry always ask is how can we monetize the net. In layman terms how can we make a shit load of money online. My belief is that not only is money made off the front end of a record or single. Money can be made off the back-end(long tail) especially if your site has analytical code set up.
Here is an example artist makes a dope album gives access to fans and music luvers to remix or do whatever through their site so the music spreads. The spreading of the artist music can be monetized by
using those metrics and that data to sell all types of products to fans. Take for example touring, with analytics you can tell exactly on your site who all over the world down loads your music. You can take that data and know exactly where to do your touring. I believe in the near future data collected off of these artist websites is going to be just as important as artist owning their own masters.
The fans and supporters luv the shows the artist puts on. Artist can sell merchandise clothing or what ever else that fits the artist. The artist has a couple of dope songs that they can licence to TV,Movies,video games or even social organizations that think it is a great anthem for their organization.
With that perspective the artist is making plenty of money, if not more. I think the back-end is going to be the most important, because pretty soon all music is going to be free online. Artist will have to use their music as advertising to make people aware of their brand.
The next question is artist who are very talented really need to sign to a major record label, and the second question that arises is who would have more power the Artist or the record label. The answer to both questions is in the 21st century if an artist comes correct the artist has the most power and leverage. This new digitized music business the artist has the power and he or she can invite anyone to their party if she or he chooses especially if their music is dope.
More things to think about:
What do YOU think?
