Record Labels and their lack of artist development

I recently watch a video of Owen Husney a music manager.  He talked about how in today’s music industry the record labels do not spend the time developing artist like they should be, they are looking for artist that already have a fan base and have already put albums out on their own.  The artists today need to spend their time now on going out and playing, building their fan base on their own. This is the only way they are going to get the record labels to help them. This isn’t how it should be; the record labels should be the ones developing the artist not getting artist handed to them that have already been developing themselves. 

The record labels business is to develop artist and have a passion for their artist, to stand behind them and help them succeed. This is the biggest thing missing in today’s music industry.

Owen Husney also talked about what he called “The System” how that big record labels will loan you $500,000.00 to help you record your first album and live on and you will make payments back to them through royalties of your albums, but when you are finished paying them back they still own your music.  This has got to change he believes that with the internet this will change soon not in the next year or so but in the years to come.

He went on to talk about today’s bands as McDonald hit bands. This is what he called bands that will not leave there mark on the earth.  Because they move as quick as McDonalds they are here and then they are gone, because these bands were not developed properly.

That leaves us with in today’s industry a band or artist must do what it takes to build their own fan base and prove to the record labels that they have the market to get their albums sold. So travel and record as much as you can, this is how todays business is.