The music industry is changing, and has been for awhile. You may be familiar with the first phase of this change, when artists started selling mp3 files more than physical products such as CD's. Well, that was only the first phase.
So before we get into the details, chances are you are reading this article because you are a singer, or a musician, or in a band, or help to produce music for yourself or others, and would like to stay ahead of the game. Keep reading and this article will help you do just that.
Phase two of the big change, is removing the middle person. So record labels will all eventually vanish. There will still be places to print, distribute, and sell the physical products like CD's, but done directly from the artists themselves, or from places hired by them.
Though music sales are expected to ultimately drop and to become next to worthless also, which is phase three of the big change. With the move of the music industry from a physical product market to a digital product market, all music is eventually going to be free. This was mostly decided by Google through the use of YouTube, because any digital album that gets placed on any digital music shop anywhere on the internet, there is a bot that will make it free to the public on YouTube, but for now, hidden from YouTube search, unless you add the word 'Topic' to your search. Then you have access to all songs from all albums, by all artists. The artists do have the right to remove these, but they can only do so one song at a time, and it is like playing Whack-A-Mole, because bots cannot be stopped by DMCA take downs, and the bots always come back. Then since YouTube videos can be downloaded to a computer, all one needs on a computer is any audio editing software to place the video files into, and from the audio editing software, those video files can then be saved as mp3 files. You can even remove the beginning and/or end of those files, and fix the volume level. So technically, YouTube is the largest contributor towards pirating music, making nearly the entire music industry worthless, meaning that if you can hear it on YouTube, then you already got the mp3 for free, so why pay for it?
You can't ignore this or run from it. So embrace it, and change with it. You can sell memorabilia merchandise, ask for donations, do things to collect donations, and get paid to have your music used in movies, video games, commercials, and events.
If you are a producer, you should seek out talented singers, lyricists, and musicians, to help match them up, and get them professionally recorded. Don't charge them anything, but once they start making money, then you can get some of the money as well.
Remember the number one rule of business and always honor it. The rule is, if you are in business to make someone money, then you put their profit before your own, and you collect nothing until they collect first, and when you do collect, it will always be much less than what they collect.
Don't be a producer that charges money for studio time. Doing so implies you gave up on yourself and have no faith in the success of anyone else, and that you only want the easy way out, more interested in a quick payoff rather than investing in a fortune.
When recording music. Each person involved is entitled to their own legal paperwork for ownership, and permissions of right to use it by. Keep in mind though, that when a song is recorded, it can be recorded a thousand different ways. So the sound itself, is not the song. The foundation for all songs are, and always will be, the lyrics.
So why are so many songs only recorded once? Why is it when people record covers of original songs, the covers always try to copy the sound of the musicians and singers exactly the same as the original songs? Do people not realize that only the lyrics matter and that the entire sound can be changed?
When everyone has the option to do something different, and all they do is copy each other, that is a sign that they are brainwashed and have no independent thought.
So now I present to you phase four of the big change. Giving people their brains back! All lyricists, singers, musicians, and producers start openly collaborating on the internet, to create and share what they create as they create it. For example: A lyricist writes lyrics for a song and posts it, then many random singers sing it however they want and post those. Then musicians hear those and make music for those and post those. Everyone would link back to who they are replying to, so all projects would be linked together. Then producers have endless audio to work with for just about any music project they want to participate in.
So when a popular song comes out, there could be about fifty different versions, all by different people, that sound nothing alike. Only thing the same would be the title and the lyrics.
To begin phase four, I've written over three-hundred lyrics and I'm looking forward to collaborating with many type of singers, musicians, and producers. For now, I gathered my thirty best lyrics and placed them into a PDF so they are officially copyrighted, and enclosed in the PDF is also a page that details requests to use written material.
A PDF is an e-book that can be read on desktops, laptops, and tablets.
Here is the PDF with thirty of my best song lyrics.
I am selling the PDF to raise money, so I can release more lyrics in a bigger book with artwork, and possibly in print. However, if you are a singer, musician, or producer with anything on the internet to show your talents, then contact me through my website, and let me know you are interested in my song lyrics, and I'll send you the PDF for free.
