Hey Wes!
Great to see you over here, like I told you, it's kind of like a big family, just start talking, and we all chime in. LOL
I loved MABs answer, like I told you, it's the uncut truth, but often with humor... Lots of it. There are no stupid questions here, that can evidenced if you'll go back some and read some of mine...
Heck I'll still ask them, I'd rather ask a stupid question, and get a tough answer, than make an uniformed stupid move, and end up with a stupid real life result. Like I told you, MABs kept me from plenty of them.
My answer is not unlike MABs, once I found out the function of a PRO I kid you not... I pulled up both their websites, looked at the artists on their homepage and made my selection by which one had the most artists pictured whom I enjoyed their music!!!
That was about two and a half years ago... I have had the dream fulfilled of hearing my songs on the radio as you described, no big market station, but one that can be picked up clearly from south Houston, west to Austin, east to Beaumont and about north to Huntsville... A pretty big spread, enough to make me feel proud for sure!. I've had a few cuts with Texas Artists who had songs selling on iTunes, and Google Play, and sold CDs all that, registered all my songs, and waited... I checked my BMI account after your post yesterday I think I'm just north of $1.00 yes one dollar... I've made about twenty off YouTube, and about $500.00 on a few non exclusive mechanical license contracts, I've got the "right" to go back to audit the artists playing my songs and make them pay the fee again, plus royalties, per my old H. Fox contract, whom I think was sold recently, but as MAB always says, it's about relationships, I am satisfied knowing I've got someone playing a song in Nashville somewhere at least three or four times a week, and also in Texas, it's a neat feeling just to know they like it enough to play it.
I wouldn't go chasing them down for an extra $72.50 or whatever it was for the rights for X amount of hard copies, for a year and my .007 cents a download. My relationship with an artist is worth far more, than that chicken feed...
It's neat to be with a PRO for anything but being able to say "I'm affiliated with... XYZ" but in reality, it's just something that adds a very slim bit of clout when with other artists, very, very, slim that says "I'm serious about what I do."
I just held my nose and picked one... Heard good and bad about both...
Great to see you over here, like I told you, it's kind of like a big family, just start talking, and we all chime in. LOL
I loved MABs answer, like I told you, it's the uncut truth, but often with humor... Lots of it. There are no stupid questions here, that can evidenced if you'll go back some and read some of mine...
Heck I'll still ask them, I'd rather ask a stupid question, and get a tough answer, than make an uniformed stupid move, and end up with a stupid real life result. Like I told you, MABs kept me from plenty of them.
My answer is not unlike MABs, once I found out the function of a PRO I kid you not... I pulled up both their websites, looked at the artists on their homepage and made my selection by which one had the most artists pictured whom I enjoyed their music!!!
That was about two and a half years ago... I have had the dream fulfilled of hearing my songs on the radio as you described, no big market station, but one that can be picked up clearly from south Houston, west to Austin, east to Beaumont and about north to Huntsville... A pretty big spread, enough to make me feel proud for sure!. I've had a few cuts with Texas Artists who had songs selling on iTunes, and Google Play, and sold CDs all that, registered all my songs, and waited... I checked my BMI account after your post yesterday I think I'm just north of $1.00 yes one dollar... I've made about twenty off YouTube, and about $500.00 on a few non exclusive mechanical license contracts, I've got the "right" to go back to audit the artists playing my songs and make them pay the fee again, plus royalties, per my old H. Fox contract, whom I think was sold recently, but as MAB always says, it's about relationships, I am satisfied knowing I've got someone playing a song in Nashville somewhere at least three or four times a week, and also in Texas, it's a neat feeling just to know they like it enough to play it.
I wouldn't go chasing them down for an extra $72.50 or whatever it was for the rights for X amount of hard copies, for a year and my .007 cents a download. My relationship with an artist is worth far more, than that chicken feed...
It's neat to be with a PRO for anything but being able to say "I'm affiliated with... XYZ" but in reality, it's just something that adds a very slim bit of clout when with other artists, very, very, slim that says "I'm serious about what I do."
I just held my nose and picked one... Heard good and bad about both...
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