Because your genre limits your potential audience, you’ll often make more money by doing it yourself than you would if you signed to a record company. For a record deal to make sense, the company has to generate more money for you (after they take their piece) than you would get by going it on your own. With niche artists, that’s often

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So, the model of the major labels certainly has changed, but by the way, after 15 years of decline and pressure, we are now in a world where the major labels continue to be the dominant players in the market and so, a good question is why is that? What is their value today to the consumer and to the artist? Democratization of music has done some... See more