How to Get a Distribution Deal
In order to get a distribution deal you must attract the record labels to you. Record labels want money! They like talent, but they love money. The surest way to attract record labels to you is by selling a lot of your music or getting millions of people to play your music online. Thanks to technology you don’t even have to get people to buy it, you just have to get them to play it online. Record labels view website plays like radio spins. Soulja Boy created his hit song out of his basement home studio and put it all over the Internet. He was averaging well over 10000 plays a day on his MySpace music player. He also used SoundClick, FaceBook and Friendster. Between the four online networks Soulja Boy was averaging well over 40000 plays a day before landing a record deal. The Internet makes it a lot easier! Ludacris made is own album/demo by himself an sold it out of his car. He sold over 30000 copies in three months. The labels came to him and the rest is history. The amazing thing about Ludacris’ story is that he did it before the Internet. There was no MySpace or YouTube when Ludacris first came out. You all have a huge advantage over Ludacris, you have the Internet.
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The God Machine was an alternative rock band active in the first half of the 1990s. Its members were all from San Diego, California, US, but they all lived and performed mainly in the United Kingdom and across Europe. The band consisted of three members, Robin Proper-Sheppard (born Gary Sheppard) (guitar/vocals), Jimmy Fernandez (bass) and Ronald Austin (drums), and they first performed officially under the name The God Machine in 1991. They released an EP, Purity with the record label Eve, and were later given contracts with the label Fiction. They released two albums in their career, both with their trademark dark and industrial-sounding alternative rock, before Jimmy Fernandez suddenly died from a cancerous brain tumour. Robin went on to form The Flower Shop Recordings label, and bands Sophia and The May Queens. Their second album, One Last Laugh in a Place of Dying, was recognized by Alternative Press as one of the “90 greatest albums of the 90s” in their December 1998 issue. Their San Diego incarnation was called Society Line and also featured guitarist Albert Amman, who left the band before its move to London. Discography Scenes from the Second Storey (Fiction Records, 1993) One Last Laugh In A Place Of Dying (Fiction Records, 1994) Sophia Discography Fixed Water (1996, The Flower Shop Recordings) The Infinite Circle (1998, The Flower Shop Recordings) De Nachten (2001, Flower Shop Recordings) People are like Seasons (2004, The Flower Shop Recordings) Collections:One …
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