Grind after you sign!

As I mentioned in an earlier blog, I went to an ASCAP event where Lyfe Jennings was on the panel and he said that he made more money and sold more records when he HAD to grind then when he got signed!

He said that once he got signed, he chilled and didn't sell as much as he had when he was grinding. Now he's back on his grind.

With record labels constantly dropping non-producing or low-producing and even mid-producing artists, artists better be on their grind to stay signed!

At another event, they talked about how Kanye West was signed to a record label and nobody at the record label was pushing his project. What did Kanye West do? He started pushing his project himself! All of a sudden the folks IN THE RECORD LABEL took notice and started getting behind Kanye's project!

So you see from those examples that just being signed to a record label is not the END of the grind; it's just the START! In other words, you must grind after you're signed. And you must grind to stay signed!

So if you know NOW that you really don't want to grind, perhaps you shouldn't don't do music to make a profit. You again can save yourself some money, time, energy, and effort by not trying to get involved in the music business. You again can always just play and write music for the fun of it and make your profession something else!

Thedy B, Attorney/Songwriter
Hits A Million, LLC
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