Today's Music Biz

Rapper Lil Wayne gets a Qwiki
(pronounced “quickie”)

Lil Wayne Gets A Quickie

There is a new social experience being created on the Internet. Lil Wayne is on of the beneficiaries of this great experiment. The website is called “Qwiki”…Think of it as a quick wiki like wikipedia. You can check out Lil Wayne’s Qwiki here.

Many Musicians trying to Market themselves to Record Labels often fail. And they often fail because of one simple mistake.
I’ve seen many up and coming Musicians who didn’t “get signed” because they made the mistake of skipping one step.

Getting a record deal can be easy to do with proper planning. There are many experienced professionals in the music biz who will tell you that the music biz is all business. I agree. With any business, proper planning is the key to success in the music biz.
This article describes some simple steps to plan your success.

Think of your career as a business. Have you assembled your business plan? How do you plan to market? What is your mission statement? Are you going to start your own record label to be distributed by a major, or are you going to use the full service resources of a major label? These are all important issues that you have to have in order to really succeed in the music biz. A music biz plan helps you resolve these issues well in advance.

A lot of recording artists enter the music biz with one big goal “to make it”. These artists see themselves on a big stage in front of thousands of screaming fans, but often that is as far as the planning goes. Artists rarely conduct the planning that it takes to succeed in the music biz.

I’ve yet to speak to an artist who has a business plan. In my experience if you don’t have a business plan, then you shouldn’t plan on being in business. A good business plan will cover your business and legal structure, your marketing model, financial projections, goals, benchmarks and finally what you’ll do after the your career is over.

I’ve met many recording artists who treat the music biz like a glorified hobby. They often don’t have business cards, a website or in many cases, a valid email address. Many more artists don’t have the marketing structure in place that will allow them to get the attention from fans or record labels. Remember that the music biz is all business. If you treat your music career as a hobby then you might as well just play your music for friends and family and be content with people pretending to take you seriously.

Getting attention and interest from record labels is easy if you are on the radar. Many Artist and Repertoire Representatives (A&R Reps) agree that if an artist is making it happen on for themselves (by selling a couple thousand CD’s locally or selling out a 2,000 seat venue) they will get on the major label radar. You can’t get on the radar of the record labels (or your fans) if you are flying by the seat of your pants and living on a prayer.

As a wise person once said “failing to plan is planning to fail”.

Jay Z and Kay West Come Hard As A Mutha...

Yo! What’s Good?…

This is ya Man…Jeronimo Black with the songs I predict you’ll hear on Radio over the next couple of weeks.

Beware! You will get tired of hearing these songs over…and over…on the radio.

Let me kick it off, with a Dirty South Joint form Kanye West with Jay Z – H*A*M Hard As A Mutha F—Not their best work but worth a listen.

Skillz “Rap Up” 2010

Ahhh…2010 is over. And as usual  M.C. Skillz wraps up the year with his “2010 Rap Up”. It’s always good to hear MC’s that can work word-play as well as the Mic. Listen to Skillz Rap Up 2010 by clicking play on the video below.

Other Hip-Hop and R&B Artists Getting Radio Airplay Include:

• Dev-Back Seat
• Tinie Tempah feat. Eric Turner-Written In The Stars
• Nelly feat. Kelly Rowland-Gone
• Snoop Dogg-Sweat
• Eminem feat. Jay-Z, Dr. Dre, Ca$his, 50 Cent & Stat Quo-Syllables
• Alicia Keys feat. Eve-Speechless

Are You Ready To Hear Your Music On the Radio?

If you really are, you should take a look at Radio Promotion Secrets. Radio Promotion Secrets shows you how to  get your songs heard on any Radio Station that your Genre of music fits in.

Radio Airplay is STILL The Best Way to Become A Music Star”

• Once your music is played on the air, you’ve turned your ”Star Machine” on. Once your music is heard on radio… people who doubted that you would “make it” start believing in your success!
• You can be like many artists who HAVE become rich and famous with only one song on the radio!
• Radio Airplay gets you noticed by the Record Label!
• Radio airplay brings tons of more people to your shows!
• Radio makes it possible to sell millions of your CD’s!
• And much more!

To learn more about how to get your music heard on radio click here