Record Labels

First define get a record label. If you want to open any business you need a license with the city. Then know what the business is all about BEFORE you invest in establishing a business regarding recordings.

If you are an artist that wants to get a contract with a record label understand that the contract is a loan on your earnings. Like a loan to buy a house. They have to be sure you are worth the risk of the loan.

Prove that and it will be easier to obtain the contract which again is only a loan against your first year earnings. Maybe a loan even against you lifetime earnings depending on your recording contract.

Labels come in all sizes like shoes but make sure it is a good fit before you approach them at all to be one of their artists.

Also make sure you can verify their prior accomplishments so that you will get the needed support for your job which as a recording aritst to sell product and pay back your loan. Those who can not pay back have a clause in the contract that they will be released from being represented by the label.

Ice Age Entertainment

It is the most amount of money ever for somebody to earn..

it means Fizz an Boog Inc

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R. Dean Taylor was a white guy who recorded 'Indiana Wants Me' and 'Gotta See Jane' on the Motown Label.

Tommy Good recorded for the Gordy label before R Dean Taylor even joined Motown as a songwriter with Holland Dozier Holland.

Lookout! (1988-1993)

Reprise (1993-present)

RCA, according to them.

Debbie Dean, Chris Clark, Kiki Dee, Charlene

By sending a demo or if your lucky you can get discovered by a producer like Dr. Dre discovered Eminem. Try signing to a small record label and making CD's to get a head start.

Try to get your name out there, make a website with your singing video's on it. Post a video of your singing on youtube, it doesn't have to be a song from you, any song will work. I know I'm having trouble finding one too, but I'm only 14, and that'll be the hardest part, but when it comes true, I'll give advice to a lot more people. :)

You can send demo CDs to the record labels, but there is very little chance of it getting seriously considered (or even listened to)... they get stacks and stacks of demos every week.

If you do send a CD, put your best track on the first track, and it better be a real attention grabber, because they may only listen to the first 20 seconds or so. Send it with a full press kit including photos and a brief bio on the band. The bio should include more just basic info such as age, instruments, and applicable education rather than stylistic details.

To be brutally honest, your only real chance at being considered by one of the big labels is to either already have a huge following, or have a friendly contact inside the label.

Let us tell you a story about an artist who went to Nashville when he had a big following in his state and was rejected since he didn't fit what the labels were looking for at that time.

They also said indirectly that proven financial backing of businesses would help. Like a sports figure gets sponsors too.

So the man went home to his state and found private investors. He then returned to offer the label a deal as other artists had done since & before him.

He then also was a marketing major in college so he knew that if he had his music lawyer in the contract ask for the venue products sales like belts, hats, etc. during the concerts he played many days a year. He then placed his own crew there to work that which eventually made the profits more after expenses were taken from the earnings for venue rental & marketing for the concerts.

Then he made more marketing & promotional efforts to gain a larger fan base until his sales figures gained respect, he paid back the loans, and then he sat & called the shots at a resigning of the contract.

Today he never has to work again with the millions earned from his formal education and not just going blindly into the major leagues without the leverage.

Music is a major business in product, marketing, & sales.

For the sale of physical records (i.e. CDs, tapes, mini-discs, etc...) labels are paid through a distributor who is responsible for the manufacture and distribution of the physical product. These distributors sell the records to retailers such as Tower Records or f.y.e who in turn sell them to consumers. Major labels handle their own distribution. The artists are entitled to a negotiated royalty payment from the sale of each record. For sales through download services such as eMusic, Rhapsody, or iTunes the record labels have individual agreements that allow for a certain percentage of the sales of their music to be paid by the online retailer. For public performance royalties, that is royalties paid for song performances on the internet, TV, clubs, restaurants, or concert venues for example, performance rights organizations (PROs) such as SoundExchange, ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC are responsible for the collection and distribution of royalty payments to member artists. Virtually every artist is a member of most if not all of these organizations.

the first musical gramophone was invented in late Victorian

　 Wind Music, founded in 1988, is one of the leading independent companies with the most wholesome marketing and sales network in Taiwan. With its object of preserving traditional Chinese music, Wind Music has produced music albums dedicated to restoring the forgotten beauty of Chinese music and exploring the wisdom of Chinese culture. The music produced by Wind Music involves talented Chinese musicians from both Mainland China and Taiwan, as well as many renowned foreign artists. Wind music’releases are basically classified into six categories: traditional Chinese instrumental music, Chinese health music, ethnic music, Chinese religious music, Chinese new age music, and Wind’s popular collections. Wind's website is: http://www.wind-records.com.tw/shop/english/page1.asp

The Gramophone Company absorbed the Zonophone company. The Gramophone company's main label was the His Master's Voice dog with its nose into the gramophone horn. When it took over it restyled the label very closely to its HMV one, but changed it away from the HMV image (it was to be the down-market range) and came up with a slightly different design.

James Russell invented the compact disk in 1965. James Russell was granted a total of 22 patents for various elements of his compact disk system. However, the compact disk came into popularity when it was mass manufactured by Philips in 1980.

I believe he held an interest in 'Swansong' records. The only two bands I know of who relased on that label were Led Zeppelin and Bad Company.

Independent (or Indie )labels have less capital to work with than major record labels - usually affecting production quality of albums and the distribution of. Independent labels are usually a stepping stone for an artist before going with a more mainstream label and making the big bucks, especially if it is a more underground type of music.

Kathy and Walter Lee wrote Cross My Heart and Hope To Die, All I See Is You, Forever And A Day, My Valentine, I'll Count The Ways, You're The Love of My Life, Its A Mystery, Plain Jane, There's Always Tomorrow, I Won't Close My Eyes, etc. They are prolific songwriters with a gift for saying what you feel.

Island Records can be reached at 212-333-8000. Fan mail and autograph requests can be sent to Island Records, Worldwide Plaza, 825 Eighth Avenue,RM C2, New York, NY 10019-7472.

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find a band signed by them, the address is on the back of their cd.

RocNation Records