OD,
Over the past 15-20 years, about 85-90% of professional songwriters and publishers have simply quit the music business, or found their own little niche in that business. Your's truly is one of those. In the early 2000's, as publishing deals, and opportunties started dissapearing, many of us saw these types of things coming. The outside cut, which had never been very prevalent, no longer existed. Money started drying up. Like a slow motion train wreck, many of us saw this coming and changed what we did to avoid what was coming. This is the latest of what has coming.
If you know anything about me (and I know you do) the FIRST thing I have done is talk to people about FORGETTING ABOUT DEALS, ABOUT CUTS, ABOUT MAKING MONEY, all of that I have been trying to explain the WHY'S it was happening. An entitled public, who gets a product for free are simply not going to start paying for it. Period.
So the people making that music, have to figure out how to promote and stay alive. ARTIST BRANDING. Now, drawing the circles even closer and eliminating anyone who is NOT ON YOUR OWN TEAM (PRO's) are just one more way to ensure that there is no way people outside those tight circles ever are allowed in.
So the people making that music, have to figure out how to promote and stay alive. ARTIST BRANDING. Now, drawing the circles even closer and eliminating anyone who is NOT ON YOUR OWN TEAM (PRO's) are just one more way to ensure that there is no way people outside those tight circles ever are allowed in.
Don't worry about it. If you believe in writing, write. Be around your own circle of friends. Develop your own artists. Do what YOU CAN DO. Don't worry about this stuff.
I almost never if at all REGISTER songs in the first place. There is not enough activity on any one song that even warrants going to the effort. You are not going to make any money that way, so why bother. To me, PRO's are pretty much entity's that don't even count any more. Pretty much like publishers. Hey, the horse and buggy got retired too.
It happens.
Do this because you enjoy it. If you spend all your time trying to jump through these hoops, you will have no energy to do anything. Just another day at the office.
Off to Ohio. Take care all.
Off to Ohio. Take care all.
MAB
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