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I’d like to see the ratio and breakdown of recently successful acts from record labels. A comparison of brand new artists that no one has heard of to artists that have been lifted off one of the following: American Idol, Nashville Star, Dancing With The Stars, MySpace, from another format, through Muzik Mafia, or from independent labels.
Where are the new star acts that can say they were actually scouted and discovered by a major label? Like when an A&R rep would be on the road and hear the buzz about an incredible artist, who they went to see, and then brought to Nashville to showcase and sign?
Yes, it still happens on occasion, but it seems so rare and sometimes more accidental than anything else.
Has allowing television, the Internet, publishers, and indie labels do the ground work for them made most major labels complacent or has the business of finding acts changed?
Sure social networks and YouTube has made discovery easier and more cost effective, but I have to think there is plenty of pure amazing talent out there that didn’t audition for a television show and doesn’t have the time or means to market themselves full time on the Internet.
Let’s find them. For all of our sake.
Debut of the Adam Gregory video for “Crazy Days”. Directed by Wes Edwards. Check out more information on his web site www.adamgregory.com.
Directed by Wes Edwards
I did not attend SXSW this year. Decided I had better things to do with my time. However, I did try to keep up with it as much as possible through a few informative blogs including ArtsBeat and Austin Music Source. Check them out if you want the rundown.
……without reading about the dilemmas of the music industry. On two separate flights (American & Northwest), in two different flight magazines. The first is an American Way article on the problematic future of the music business. The second is from NEA World Travler on how former artists are taking their personal experience into the ever changing music business world. Both good reads. Without the peanuts though.
