Building Your First Recording Studio, Picking Your Computer

Laptops or Desktops? If you travel a lot, go with a laptop. If you’re at home a lot, go with desktop. Simple!
Mac or PC? If you want to work at the Hit Factory in NY or Miami you’re going to have to learn to use a Mac. If you just want to [...]

Change The Way You Think

How do you hear about music? Do you listen to what the critics say? Do you wait and see what comes on BET and MTV? Maybe you just listen to what your friends say his hot? Try surfing the web a little and looking for indie artists. Check out the [...]

Guess Who Lost Their Record Deal?

Nobody is going to give you a record deal. You have to prove you can sell. In fact major record labels are cutting their own big named artists who are not selling. Here is a list of all the artists who were dropped by major record labels in 2007.
***Add Omarion to this [...]

Are Audio Production Schools Necessary?

Having a degree can’t hurt, but the decision is up to you. Kanye West enrolled in college, but then dropped hence the name of his album College Dropout. Timbaland never went to school and Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard. Clearly success can be achieved without a degree. However, some people learn better in [...]

Who’s Your Audience?

Were you born in 1980? Did you listen to music now and think it is completely void of talent and substance? You probably do. This is because you are no longer a part of the age group Record labels market to.
Record labels and many other companies market to teenagers because they spend money. Most [...]

Create A Genre, Don’t Follow Trends

In the 1970’s the music trend was Disco. In the 1990’s it was Rap and now we have Dirty South. Listen to me young people, if you can start a new trend you will be a legend. If you follow trends you’ll be forgotten like Disco.
A good example of this is Run DMC and [...]

Distribution Deal vs. Recording Deal

A distribution deal is every recording artists’ dream. Most record deals are every recording artists’ nightmare. However, most recording artists’ don’t know the difference between the two. Standard recording contracts require the artist and or songwriters to give up song rights and publishing. Song rights and publishing is where the money [...]

Entertainment Seals of Approval

In the music industry the most common seals of approval are:
Grammy Nominated
Grammy Award Winning
Multi Platinum
Plantinum
Diamond
Industry Approved

By Jamille Luney
Music Analyst

Does Not Matter What People Say About Your Music

What matters is that it sells. Your friends may tell you it sucks, a record label may tell you ‘it’s just not there’, and a studio engineer might say the production is garbage. Don’t get bent out of shape just prove them wrong.
The best way to prove this is through record sales. [...]

MySpace and Three Major Labels Tag Team

This will help you with your online marketing strategies. New York Times published this article on April 4, 2008. The article is listed at the link below.

NYTimes Permalink Posted on Jamille Luney.com
Music Analyst

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/technology/04myspace.html?ex=1365048000&en=17881bc1d120351e&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink