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  • Grammy Riddim Instrumental

    Grammy Riddim Instrumental

    Composed By Str8 Fyah Beats

    Grammy Riddim Now Available For Download

    Grammy Riddim, Dancehall Instrumentals

  • Booking Agents

    Booking Agents

    How To Find Booking Agents

    Booking Agents

    Every artist eventually wants a booking agent. Musicians get to a point where they want to begin performing, but not just perform at parties or bars. They want quality venues and events with decent crowd numbers so they can show case their talents. When a artist gets to this point the best place to look is the booking agent directory. Finding a booking agent is rather easy, but gaining their interest may be hard. Lets go through some ways to gain the interest of a booking agent.

    The first place to start when searching for a booking agent would be google or any reputable music business directory. Google and music directories will position your search to booking agents. During your search you want to make sure the booking agent works with in your genre or obviously it wont make sense.

    When you have established interest in a booking agent, the next thing to do is call or write to them. See if they are interested in working with any up coming talent and ask them if you can send them some material to listen to, with a portfolio. You will also need to express to them that you are not a new artist and that you have a growing fan base, and people desire to here you. You will need to have proof of this through your social media and any other form of demographics.

    Booking Agents

    One of the best ways to land a deal with a booking agent is to invite them to your next show, this will prove to them everything that you have stated in your first correspondence with them. Invite them to a show with a good turn out, that will show how many people you are drawing independent of a label. Make sure you interact with the audience and you bring out reaction from the crowd, booking agents love crowd response.

    In the beginning you may have to perform for free or for little money when working with a booking agent. 9 out of 10 times you will begin as a opening act for a star artist, but this is still a good step. You will be given a plat form to build your audience among a bigger name and that will only make you more of a brand as time goes on.

    Getting in contact with a booking agent can take some time, gaining their interest may not happen at your first attempt. Don’t become discouraged if you don’t spark their interest, just continue working at performing and spreading your music to the masses. Just be persistent continue to build a relationship with them and update them on your progress. Many music professionals like consistency they want to make sure the artist they are going to work with will be a success.

    Music Business Directories

    1. Musical America, www.MusicalAmerica.com
    2. Pollstar, www.pollstar.com
    3. The Musician’s Atlas, www.MusiciansAtlas.com

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  • Making Money Off Music

    Making Money Of Music

     Making Money off Music

    5 ways to making money off music

    Many recording artist have a common question, is making money off music possible? Now this is a fair question to ask, especially in this new era of music. With the incline of social media and the internet a lot of artist, songwriters, producers and recording studios may have some doubts about the state of the music business.

    Honestly I would have to say yes! The possibility of making money off music is definitely there. We are in a digital age, and there is no better time than now to make music and earn off of your music. The digital age has given recording artist the flexibility that wasn’t possible 15 years ago.

    It is safe to say that the digital age has forced most artist and musician groups to become more independent and independence is not a bad thing! Yes being an indie artist trying to make money off music will have its challenges, but the success is a lot fruitful in regards to the monetary gain.

    The average statutory rate for earnings for a newly signed artist on a major label is 10 cents off the dollar. Meaning a record label will collect 90 cents and the artiste keeps 10 cents. Some independent labels will give an artist 25 cents and collect 75 cents which is better. Also you have your indie artist that does everything for his or her self and will collect all of their earnings after paying for promotion, distribution, studio time and beat instrumentals or live musicians.

    Making money off music will take time and will also depend on how hard your working. Think of a strategic approach to introduce the public to your sound. Your growth as an artist will not come over night but it will come if you have the proper work ethic.

    Also you must have a love for what you are doing. Whether it may be a singer, rapper, dj, songwriter, producer or studio engineer, you must have a love for it. If you don’t have a love for it making money off music will just be something you’re doing just to make money. Most people who do something just to make money drop the ball and fail as soon as they see the slightest form of disappointment.

    Below are 5 things an artist can do to begin making money off music, in the digital age.

    1. Crowd funding – this avenue in making money off music is done through donations from friend, family members, customers/fans or individual investors. The approach is basically a collected effort amongst people who have admiration towards the artist music.
    2. You Tube – As an artist you tube as set up monetization so selected channels can generate revenue through advertising. The very first step for you tube would be to drive traffic to your you tube channel and build an audience to optimize your channel for opportunities.
    3. Sponsorship – Sponsorship’s only work best when an artist has developed a nice fan base. company sponsorship’s can range from money, products or services.
    4. Streaming – One of my personal favorites is streaming, streaming does take some work to circulate your song for online streams. However streams are like radio spins. You can get 3, 5 or 10 cents per steam depending on where the music is being streamed from.
    5. CD Sales – One of the top ways to sell cds are at live performances, an artist can have his or her team set up a vendor with cds to sell. Live performances are the best way in my opinion because potential fans are getting a feel for who the artist is and will feel more open to patronizing an artist music campaign.

  • Nalingi Riddim Available

    Nalingi Riddim Available Now!

    JDN Records makes the Nalingi Riddim available

    JDN Records has now officially mad the Nalingi Riddim Avaliable for limited time free download. The track listing features a star studded listing of growing artiste from five islands of the Caribbean. The riddim was produced by str8 fyah beats for tropic vibez studio and distributed by JDN Records a independent distribution and publishing company. The compilation is a must have for disk jockies, the track is destined for more than just the Soca music or Caribbean music scene. JDN Records is giving free courtesy downloads before it hits itunes august 1st, sign up below to receive your free copy.

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  • Real Love Riddim Instrumental

    Real Love Riddim

    Real Love Riddim Instrumental

    Composed By Str8 Fyah Beats

    Real Love Riddim Now Available For Download

    Reggae Beats, Reggae Instrumentals, Buy Reggae Beats

  • Radio Play Still Matters

    Radio Play Still Matters

    Radio play still matters in the new age

    Many would argue whether or not if the idea of radio play still matters. The focal point of marketing and promotion for major record labels as always been radio. When record labels would sign a new act many of their promotional efforts would be towards radio. Now fast forward to the millennium, the idea of radio promotions has certainly changed.

    There are now five different areas labels and artist take their records for radio exposure. You still have the normal terrestrial radio which (includes commercial, community, and college stations), plus satellite radio services, genre-specific online programs, podcasts, customizable streaming radio platforms like Pandora and iTunes Radio, and more. Now obviously with such a wide variety of avenues to expose artists music, radio play still matters even more than before!

    With such a wide variety of options for radio marketing, labels and indie artist can reach a larger and more diverse audience of people. An artiste’s target market is much greater than just within his or her’s city or country. They can now instantly gain the attention of people around the world instantly through one online steam.

    Terrestrial radio could be used to capture a local buzz for the record that is released. in conjunction with online marketing and promotion a great avenue to go is podcast, Pandora and any form of online radio. These radio programs will aid in online exposure, building online presence. These different options for radio exposure has allowed labels and indie artist to become more creative and versatile with marketing records.

    There are quiet a few people who would say radio is not needed due to social media but let’s think for a minute. People go on social media for many reasons news, gossip, entertainment or to kill time. Now with in that brief time on social media that person might become entertained with some new music which was posted in a news feed, Which is a great thing. The bad thing is social media can be a distraction for a artist music as well. Think what would be more effective having music on iTunes radio where someone online is on the station desiring to listen to music or someone desiring to spend a few minutes hearing who is dating who! or who said this about this person!

    The best chance for effective exposure is with the individual desiring to hear music. The other person may hear the music but may not be as drawn to it as the listener who is focused. The keyword is focused you want to capture the attention of a possible fan in a space that has the listeners full attention even if its only for 2 minutes. With the flexibility and options of radio today. Artists and labels have a better chance of breaking a record, so with that said radio play still matters. Radio will always be a important factor in marketing and promoting new music and artist.

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  • DMG Heating Up

    Reggae/Soca artist DMG Heating up the town!

    New Music Release By DMG Heating up Produced By Str8 Fyah Beats

    Download DMG Heating UpThe new release heating up performed by D.M.G was produced by Str8 Fyah Beats for Tropic Vibez Studio. The single was released by Tropic Vibez Studio, a Independent music distribution and music production company in Miami Florida. The single has been in heavy rotation across online radio stations such as Pandora and Sirius xm also local stations in the south west of the united states. Countries with in the west indies, central and South America are beginning to gravitate to the release. D.M.G Heating Up can easily be a top charting cross over single, despite its Caribbean elements with in the body of work, the single can definitely hold a place in the international market.

    D.M.G Heating up is now available on itunes after a great pre release campaign and is gaining more traction. The new release by D.M.G is definitely going to heat up the Caribbean and international markets, with the lyrical content and pulsating instrumental known as the Nalingi Riddim produced by Str8 Fyah beats. The Nalingi Riddim will also feature D.M.G Heating up on the riddim medley, the compilation will be due out later this year.Music lovers who are interested in D.M.G Heating up can preview and download the instrumental on itunes.

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  • Destruction Riddim

    Destruction Riddim Instrumental

    Composed By Str8 Fyah Beats

    Destruction Riddim Now Available For Download

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  • Music Distribution

    The power of music distribution

    Why Music Distribution Matters

    Adding music distribution to your campaign

    Frequently talented unsigned artist record great material. They get it mixed, mastered ready for the world to hear and even ad a music video to the song, so they figure… I’m going to drop it Friday on Facebook maybe even twitter Right! Well that’s a good attempt but unsigned artist need to take things a little further. It is annoying to see good artist spend year after year making music that can potentially spawn their dream career and the music ends up going no where!Music Distribution fyah beats

    Unsigned artist should look towards music distribution, the process of distributing a artist music is vital to the growth of the artist career. Now this depends on what type of music distribution, there are many forms of distribution and is a part of the puzzle that is pretty much left out sadly by unsigned artist.

    Now a unsigned artist should take all avenues in music distribution, why? You may ask! Its simply because he or she is a fresh face. I’ll be straight up if a artist does not place some effort to distribute their material they limit the chance of success by about 50%. People need to continuously see, hear and become familiar with the artist, this is also in relation to forms of branding.

    The biggest mistake unsigned artist have is thinking releasing a song starts and ends with social media. If a artist begins to get stuck in this train of thought they will definitely become stuck. All that will happen next is year after year the artist will loose focus, hope and confidence only to fail at achieving their dream. Now not everyone can be have what it takes to a super star artist, but the game has honestly way more depth to it than twitter and Facebook… and this is the reason why you have so many artist online now wishing to be scene.

    My friend if you are reading this now go ahead and click here tap into a piece of the puzzle that many indie artist leave out the puzzle! There are millions of unsigned artist online desiring to be heard and seen but I beg and plead please don’t be stuck year after year recording great music thinking a major label A&R executive will come in boxing you on Instagram and twitter. Simply does not work that way… Don’t get me wrong at all… It has happened but its like winning the powerball lotto! Don’t wait for luck make your luck man.

    let me give you some valuable information about some of the steps you can use to bring your music as a artist above the rapid saturation that has plagued twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Go here

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  • Digital Distribution

    Indie artist and Digital Distribution

    Independent Digital Distribution without a record contract

    Why indie artist should get Digital Distribution

    Social media has made changes to the process of promotion, marketing and distribution of music. Many indie artist have stood the test of time through these changes, but many have given up along the way due to the evolution of the record industry. The beginning of this change started during the release of myspace and since then continues to grow.

    With facebook, twitter, indigital distribution stagram, youtube and other social platforms along with apps, the record industry has took a turn to independence. Gone are the days where record labels would pump massive amounts of money into a single act hoping for their investment to payoff. Labels are more interested in pre developed artist, who are self reliant and able to do for themselves. You now might be saying ok! what does self reliance have to do with digital distribution.

    Lets look at a few things here, record labels spend lots of money on digital distribution these days. If your a chart topping super star artist most likely the label will make a return on the investment. In essence they would be recouping the advance they gave the artist, but we will go into advances and recouping at another time. Now unfortunately for new artist fresh out of the stable investments can end up being a loss for record labels.

    With that said labels would much rather market, promote and invest in digital distribution for artist who are already established and carry a following. Imagine if you were a record label and you invested lots of money only to see it become unsuccessful. Im sure the next time around you would be a little reluctant to opt into investing again.

    It is important for unsigned artist searching for a break to not only release music online but also grow a loyal fan base. Once this is done, the next step can be to introduce digital distribution into the mix of a music campaign. Allowing the fans to get access to music that will inspire them to purchase. allot of indie artist neglect digital distribution and just place their music for free on soundcloud or hulk share. Now the truth is, artist are gambling with a 50% chance of devaluing their brand before building it.

    Now in the beginning stages of a music campaign artist should give away some free music maybe even a whole album. Giving free samples of a artist music is highly encouraged, when starting a campaign. However their must be a goal at the end of the day and that is to generally be able to make sales independent of a label. Doing this would allow a artist to have references of their success when a label comes calling.

    The goal of any independent artist is to make themselves a success instead of running to a record label. Remember the saying beggars cant be choosers, well it applies here! Record labels will not offer a talented indie artist a good contract. In fact they probably wouldn’t entertain the idea of contract negotiation. Their have even been situations in the past where labels have used artist as tax right offs sad to say.

    The best thing for a upcoming artist in this new age is to become independent and serious about the music they make. Yes it will take money to go indie. Recording music, paying for a band, buying instrumentals, paying for marketing and digital distribution can cost a little. However for a artist now is the best time to make a name independently! With private marketing teams, social media and other tools at ones finger tips their is no need for not even attempting to try.

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