Bro just need to get a cdl

wish you used questions marks

Awful autotune 'Cher Effect' rubbish. That is not music.

bruh idk about them songs tho, he just aint as good as he thinks imo

Its always been like thst. Micheal, prince, whitney....vulnerable

I agree. The way he was looking at how much he loved his own music made me notice thst vibe

True

😁

Susan Boyle -Britain's Got Talent'

I'd love to songwrite/ghost write because I have a ton of experience. But i really have to idea how to start / search for potental clients

Yup i do almost everything lil simi is me business...its about your hustle

@@YTwoKay start off with your local artists then build up

@@YTwoKay I’m interested

💯👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Well there would be plenty of underground artists like just wasting your time and money

Sign anyone down with the agenda and will give up them cheeks to start...to start

@@antiglobohomo2840 💯💯💯 the real can see right thru them 👁

Dirty Blonde sounded ok but he just sounds like everyone else in his genre.

If you got a hot song it doesn’t matter much who sings it

Tbh Dirty Blonde is trash #respectfully #80'sBaby!

I'm glad that you said it.

That's a lyric on 'Copy of a copy of a copy'

I’ve been around labels and understand the back end. Labels take massive risk. Thing is artist just have no clue how business works. Hell the average person doesn’t.

Yeah but is this music that is coming out in South Korea as varied as the music elsewhere? If everyone here in the U.S. wanted to hear the same style then maybe artists here would enjoy greater autonomy in the industry.

@@joeldavis5815 That's the point, people associate every song/artist that comes from Korea as Kpop when it's not true. There are all kinds of styles that we have here in the west (rap, hip-hop, rock, R&B, indie etc), plus Korean traditional styles. Kpop for them is the idol industry where companies train young people and form groups that then debut, and even here there are a variety of styles, groups that focus more on pop, rock, hap etc. I personally have never heard that about artists receiving salaries, usually the contracts are by time (7 years) and not by album and artists have the percentages on top of what they do . I completely disagree with the example of HYBE in the context given above, it is one of the few idol companies that encourages its artists to actively participate in the creation of songs, as far as I know the profit sharing is also fair, for example, the company does not charge the costs incurred to train the idols (which usually takes years), if the idol is chosen to debut in a group he doesn't need to pay back the company anything, if he is not chosen he can continue with the training or leave when the contract ends without paying anything back (I believe all the biggest companies have this policy). The truth is that even among idol companies the difference in how they operate and how they treat artists varies a lot, it is true that most only see them as products with an expiration date, but this is not the general rule. It's hard to judge the entire Korean music industry in stereotopes that build on kpop, when kpop itself is more complex than just idols who do what companies say without any creative input, there are groups that produce, write, compose, choreograph . The truth is that it's not very different from what we have in the West, not every artist we see in the media did what they sing, but the media doesn't insist on painting the entire Western/American industry as manufactured for that. And again outside of kpop there is a whole music scene in Korea, and this is what dominates the Korean charts, what the general public hears, very few kpop groups do well on the charts and the ones that do are mostly groups of girls. For example, right now who is dominating the charts is a soloist who writes her songs.

Kpop also has an industry where they *train* people how to be stars. It can be pretty grueling if you read more about it, and as time goes on, the companies are giving more rights to the artists they have trained for years even though it’s more disposable compared to what happens elsewhere in the world. Most people in the rest of the world are totally self made (like we saw with Dirty Blonde in this vid), and you don’t really see that in kpop.

HYBE are an exception in the Kpop industry though. The actual norm is this: Kpop artists aren't "well taken care of" at all. They're just seen as dolls or walking billboards meant to display a creative team's vision, plus ads and sponsorships, because the music isn't actually their main source of income, ironically enough. They're allowed pretty much zero creative input (there are some exceptions, but only very few). Idols have ownership over nothing - not even their private life. These artists are paid nothing unless they're very successful, while the higher-ups rack all the money in. Kpop artists are treated exactly just like Kpop music itself: they're disposable. I won't go into all the other problematic things pertaining to Kpop, but Kpop in general is even worse than the US music industry for the artists. Using HYBE as a Kpop example would be wrong, since this corporation isn't representative of the industry - although it would be nice if more Kpop companies were like them.

K-pop is litteraly the worst model Like they don’t even have the right to date This is 10x worse

Yeah cuz the artist will only get a tiny piece

What do you mean by "sacrifice?" 💀

@@yamajastytha3386 sacrifice meaning give up in exchange for something better common sense should tell you that

@@yamajastytha3386 you gotta make a huge amount of sacrifices, it isn’t handed to you. You have to give something equal in return which is your life pretty much.

Actually they disqualified bot-streams and/or automated streams to combat just that. Billboard also disqualified artists, especially major label, from asking fans to stream their music to pump up the numbers.

There's no good enough training for any artists out there.

The record labels bought stock with the streaming services to the exclusion and detriment of the artist.

@@andyscott5277 yup exactly right. Smart move on their parts though

Is that "Back foot position" those artist are in are intentionally created by external forces and dictated by external forces?

Hollywood isn't hot at all. Nobody interesting in the Hollywood scene unless they're big already.

There is a huge misunderstanding. People consume more music than ever, but there is less and less money to go around. The reason streams pay $0.0043 is because revenue is essentially finite. So once you divide the money amongst all the streams you get these microscopic figures. All the participants in this videos don’t really depends on that revenue, so they prey on hopeful artists, and offer “services” (without guarantees). They will demand 360 deals so they can continue to be paid first, and out of hundreds (thousands?!) of unsuccessful artists. At least in the ‘60s and ‘70s you’d sign your money away to some mobster but he would then work to make you famous (and himself rich). Now they don’t even have to bother with that.

@@ThemFuzzyMonsters i understand that. But its stacked against the middle tier artists. Ive personally seen tracks ive engineered that dont get the traction and reach they assumingly should have, because they dont get the same promotion or playlisting as other artists who are already successful. Its not to say i dont understand, its just the state of the industy sucks for the art. As it always has.

@@sergedotcom I agree with you. If it was hard to cut through back in the days, it is a thousand times harder now. What annoys me the most is that your odds to recoup (RIO) are null; and it is indeed stacked worst against the small and middle tier artists. Yet there is a whole “industry” that lives off the hopes and dreams of others, and I think it has gotten worse.

Yessirski same here

Keep grinding🤘🏾

sigma male grindset

goodluck

Me too

It's called the School of Hard Knocks. No one who is successful in the music industry on the business side has ever been through s training, in-depth or otherwise, you learn and succeed by and through your own hustle and grind game.

🤣🤣🤣 I thought the same thing 🤣🤣🤣

U took the words right outta my mouth,how much he payed for that image 🥴🥴🥴I will sing in my car, 😂 and shower.These artist getting messed over🤨

Well said

Once you have real supporters alot of doors can be opened though, clothing brand, twitch streaming, a KZfaq channel, meet and greets, etc, there's alot of ways to make money once you're "famous" and the music will gradually go up over time because your creating a bond with fans

Why

Nah they protect her copyrighting...

Damn thats the most accurate way to put it The dilemma is real, either sacrifice nearly ALL of your time or sell your soul… Cant really live without both of them

What is your masters? Masters degree

@@blacklyfe5543 original music files

​@@GurpreetSingh-vz4hp I wish to know how a music master looks like.

It’s very clear if you pay attention to music ...Doja and dis lips are making 80s disco records that are going platinum

To be fair they did create the technology and the platforms to allow artists to put their music out there and reach people worldwide. Without those platforms (or without a record label) artists would still be forced to build their fanbase in a very grassroots way (through selling cds and doing as many local shows as possible)

Spotify and Apple are not the middle men. I believe you are referring to labels and distribution.

@@stefanzlatarits5080 Streaming services are the middle men, for the middle men

NFTS 😬

Invent one you’ve got the concept

He is an artist. ..just not a successful one. Don't forget the great majority of artists (in every area from music to oil paintings to knitting sweaters) are broke and almost nobody likes what they create - or at least not enough to pay them a living wage. Tough gig.

It especially funny, coz literally everybody in the whole world is listening to music, but not everybody has apple products or goes t McDonald's

@@MrMrdesertrose preach!

Not Russel Simmons it's Kevin Liles

It’s the dark truth of the music industry it sucks

Exactly ! That shows the power of these other companies

The key is in the title: "FINANCIAL Times". This is about finance, not time.

Finally a decent comment worth reading.

It's both

did the math, with the industry standard, which is 8% if youre lucky, youd have to make $13 million dollars to pay back your loan...

And the majority of the major labels are clueless, out of touch, cornballs with a small sense of direction.

DISLIKE IF YOU DONT AGREE

You are not as smart as you think. The money that the investors put into artists... Where did that come from? Correct, by spending time doing something productive. So the investors spent a lot of time getting that money and invest that into an artist so they are clearly the ones that are taking all the risk

@@user-mn2sn1xu9b right? imagine all the people they invested in that didn’t make a dime lol

if you look at it at face value, you will see, obviously, that's its labels and investors that take the biggest risk. they're spending millions on these artists who may not even "make it", or become popular at all.

@@lowqualitywaffle8765 - as opposed to the actual artist, who spends a lifetime honing their craft and creating product? Because a lifetime is easily replaceable, but money is not? Thanks for the input sycophant.

@@fyimediaworld i fully understand what you mean, but this isnt about skills, it's about money. the video, i mean..

4real bruh jaylnn a cheese stick

Wild right

Very well made indeed

I want to be a singer in China, but why you say in China their not making money?

@@harutowatanabeisbae4993 *they're

Dont singers in China perform in big concerts? They could make money doing so.

Is it real that chinese actors are millionaires?

Yeah..

Dudes got to pay back his label sooooo. Yeah, put him to work. Dudes just an employee that's taken out a loan with his employer anyway.

184 monthly listeners for my guy lol, f

I thought the same thing!! Couldnt really understand how he got signed but i mean he has fans so that must mean something Taste is subjective after all

Exactly. He can't even sing! Only a very generic computer voice-over makes it 'listenable'

3 Judges Determine that Price,don't believe me go see who set the Rates,you'd be Surprised

@@0-lkx who set it up

Most artists signed to major labels don't recoup their investment. If an Investor gives you $1, they'll want $10 back.

@@justakid9899 What music do you specialize in?

@@justakid9899 In the Hip Hop & R&B space, what are your strongest set of skills?

@@justakid9899 You're a vocalist? What's your range?

Tell that to Russ. 🤣🤣 It’s profitable in the long run, but there are A LOT of factors involved in “making it”. And as time goes on, more and more independent artists will emerge, and more major artists will leave their record labels, once they have the fan base.

@@theghost9409 LOL indeed my brother 😄🤣🤣🤣