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WHEN?
by JAPOV - 04/23/26 11:28 PM
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IRAN
by Fdemetrio - 04/15/26 12:27 PM
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Mike, you gave that gentlemen some excellent advice. One non-commercial song (no matter how well recorded), 99.99% of the time is going to bring in $0.
In order to be successful in film/tv, you need to have a large cataloque of broadcast quality tracks. One track doesn't cut it.
A song that doesn't sound anything like what's on the radio has virtually no chance of being signed. Heck, we have writers right on this forum who have great songs who have trouble pitching them.
You have to ask the question - why are you writing music? What makes you think that your song is going to get through the many gatekeepers who screen music, be put on hold, be on the short list, be one of the few of 5,000 or so songs considered that is actually recorded, and then make it on the CD, which is successfully released and gets on the charts? On a CD with 15 or 18 songs, most of which are written by the artist? What are the chances?
I'm all for believing in dreams but I'm also all for getting educated about the business and understanding how to compose/produce, market/network effectively to build relationships and grow your chances of success in a very competitive industry in a huge state of flux.
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