Here's my article on this topic including a FREE checklist: www.otherrecordlabels.com/how-to-submit-your-music-to-record-labels

Best 'pitch' video I've ever watched, hands down, so much straight up common sense yet I hadn't previously thought of any of it

thanks for taking the time man. Helpful Info!

Very reasonable advice. Thanks for sharing tips aimed at musicians rather than labels. I've been listening to your podcast for a while now, and now I start enjoying it even more.

All I’m hearing is, there’s no point for a record label because as soon as I’m on my feet and running I have people already doing what a record label would do😂

Thanks for the advices!

Thank you so much for this information,l got to learn new things and l love the way you explain everything ✊🏾

I’m a French artist🇫🇷 and thank you so much for all your information. Merci beaucoup! 💜💜💜😍👌🏾

Thanks for the tips 😊

Thank you very much for these tips and advices, much appreciated !

You have hit the nail on the head! Awesome information!

This really informative and helpful. thank you for your time putting this together!

This was so helpful. Thank you! ❤

Thanks for the advice man. Super helpful.

don't chase lables, let them come to you. then you will also have more leverage in negotiating the contract.

Thank you for the information. As someone who makes music for a hobby, it's really suprising, and kinda scary when a label or a promoter start reaching out.

Very good advice. Thanks!

This is a great video. Thanks for the info. All True, Will be looking back for more tips. Appreciate this. Cheers!

very helpful, thanks so much!

This was very helpful thank you

Sometimes is not about being sign to a label as interpreter or singer , can be also to help to create a production a sound that may be some artist can need , it’s about the relationship . Always a record label or some connected to it , that connection helps to create a plus to help and artist . In just saying 🤷🏽

Thank you

That was interesting and helpful. Thanks!

thank you very much - really appreciate this video

Great info, cheers 😊

Thank you so much I and my band are to release our songs soon but we need a help of a record label because we are minors and we don't have money but we are sure a record label will be impressed by us

Really informative interview,, thank you

This is a very fantastic idea 👍

I'm trying to record My music to submit it to a record label but I really need to make videos with my music in so that I can do it. I find your videos helpful

Thank you for doing this, it's really helpful.

I like the plants in your studio man 👌🏼

Do not forget this guy is on KZfaq, Many gurus here. Aways trust and follow your instincts before giving your power to gurus and egos making videos

Hey it's the guy from the Phil Collins channel!

I think this is great advice for more than just looking for a record deal. Starting to make think about jobs I have applied to and got rejected possibly?

Thank you for this video. Super insightful and very useful. Do you do one on one consultations over Zoom?

Thanks so much for the info! Our band currently has our first album recorded, mixed, and mastered. We've played together for a decade but have been focusing on original content over covers for the past 4 years. Because we don't have any content on Spotify or any other DD sites yet, should we just release the album through CDBaby and try to pitch our next album or would indie labels be interested in a band that doesn't have a huge online presence but already has a lot of gigging experience and a full album at the ready?

That u cause warner reach out I sigh and this video put me on lots of sneaky games lol in a very good way lol

I would think that if A & R people, artists and labels would want to go to an online source to find new songs but if the songs are presented to everyone as demo samples, then how could the songs be "released" since they have already been available in the public domain? It seems as though the song being pitched has to kept secret or just between the pitcher and the listener. But then, that limits the song's exposure.

Is it a good idea to send demos to a label’s “info” email address if you can’t find a direct address to someone who works for them?

Thank you so much for the advice question do you know some labels that I can reach out to or how do I find the labels so I can reach out to them to sign a deal I have already the album ready and it's published and it's really good and I'm also working on another recordings as we speak

You were rude at times in this video and arrogant but still very helpful and informative

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My submission is going to be a masterful arrangement of artistic expression 😁

hey, i just got an offer to sign to a record label and it was for a remix that i made using royalty free loops and another song which. has its own copyright already so how does that work , do i submit this to a&R?

Very useful thanks!What happens if someone is a multi genre writer?My friends admire that but they also tell me that it is also problematic but this is my nature..I hear many genres i love almost all the music 😐

quick question? how would this work for insturmental producers? I can provide a variety of geners for lables without them really having to scavenger for what they need, i know they normally appease to the vocal artist but i wanted to know how does a music producer get placed just only supplying insturmentals and insturmentals for artists? would apprecite the info

Thank you for this great video! Would you submit your album you'd like released to the 5 to 10 labels simultaneously, or send it to one at a time and give for them a few weeks to respond? I heard you might be "burning bridges" if several labels want it and then you gotta turn them down, but I'm not sure about that.

I have a finished series of albums (mixed and mastered, artwork, etc.), and have already distributed them to the major streaming platforms. Can I still pitch these albums to record labels for an official release/re-release further down the line? P.S. In your opinion, is there still a case to be made for posting physical CDs? Great video btw.

I know this is an unusual question, but can people under 18 sign a record label? Because I’ve written and recorded 3 out of 4 albums and 1 is a cover album another question, can you cover songs put them in an album and give them credit does that still work? So about the other 3 albums I want to save 2 of course and I’m starting to get gigs. So I’m thinking in the future so like maybe 2 to 3 years from now do you think I can sign a record label under age?

I have an album of demos finished as high quality as I can get them. I'd like to pitch to a record label that I want to work with a producer and re-record all these songs. Is that something that happens? Any advice for me? This was a great video! Thank you so much!

Great points. I have a very valid question at 11:52 mark. What do you mean by 'don't offer more of what a label has' when music topics have been repetitive since the beginning of time? lets fast forward from about 2017ish till now, 2023, since you're talking about modern music. 95 percent of musicians all sound the same? So they definitely have copy cats under the BIG 3, uni, warner, sony and subs. Sonically, Subject matter, Visual impact. All the same? I mean they do replay every new top 40 song every 1-3 hrs... it's promo I get it. But very interested how much more differences can be offered to lables when the ones who dare to be different get shunned by indies and majors?

Been trying to get signed for a year now, im a new artist I’m in a niche genre, but I do variety shit as well, I need a horrorcore label, but I can’t find any label that’s looking for artists

Thanks for the advice, super helpful. I have one question about pitching to labels. If I pitch some music to a label and they reject it or don't respond, and months or years later I have new music to pitch, do you think it's okay to pitch the same label again with new music? Sometimes I worry that I might "miss my chance" by pitching music to a label that they wouldn't want, when down the line I might have music that they do want. Thanks a lot!

What would be the best way to get in contact with you to just have a 1on1 for like 30 minutes? I just already have a plan / idea for this album I want to drop & I’m about halfway through you’re video & I feel like I’m at a perfect point to talk to someone like you so I can know what to properly do. This is definitely my best project, & I feel like it could be life changing if I market it right or get a label behind me. I’ve been doing music for 10+ years & just finally feel like I’m headed in the right direction & want to just talk to someone about it all. Even just for 30 minutes.

What if I want to submit a track to a label where I use an acapella from a well-known track. I then use a small piece of that acapella, just 1 sentence. I don't understand exactly how that works...

Ohh Hi so l want to be a rapper when l grow up will that count?

Anyone know how to sell songs and lyrics to record labels or become a songwriter for them?

What about the age of the independent artist?

honestly, can you tell: how many submission emails do you even check out of a 100, as a label manager? 🙂. the current problem, I think, is that submission emails are just lost in the wave of other stuff, without being even opened. if your email gets opened - it's just simply by random. that's how I see things, this is very frustrating

The question I have is, why should I bother with a label

most of the record label don’t even want to hear demos and/or finished product

How do we find labels information? Or how to get jobs into label companies. Well do you do consultations I have so many questions and have so much information to present😭

I won a record signing at age five and they don't pay the writers or musicians on the albums because of the BSA. The government won't allow me to make cash income on my music sales. Guess where the money goes?

I have literally done all this and contacted hundreds of labels (not a figure of speech, literally) and almost all of them didn't even reply. In fact there's no way of knowing if anyone ever received my e-mail in most cases. A few replied but didn't know what to do with "this kind of music". This is with a finished release-ready queue of albums, a world-class, international band consisting of players with the highest objective, measurable ability level (apparently this is meaningless to most people in the industry since they don't understand the difference and don't actually know much about music) to tour, a music videos series partly done (paralyzed from finishing without any support or funding) and more. I literally just cannot fund release / touring and promotion. Other than that, everything else is taken care of. The only thing I haven't been able to do is the hyper-relevance thing. The reason being, no label exists that exactly fits what we are doing. The selling point is musicianship and the style of music doesn't fit strictly into any existing category. I guess the closest you could come up with would be a "fusion" with a "rock" sort of sound. Therefore, the best I could do is aim it at labels that have some small reason they might be remotely relate to us. There isn't anything more relevant that exists. What would you do in this situation? Another issue might be that I am in Hong Kong, so it could be that a lot of labels don't want to deal with someone from overseas? My band members are from Australia and USA, but I am not. I also cannot get a label in Hong Kong because there's NO way in hell a non-genetically Chinese person is getting signed to a label in Hong Kong, (even if you are local, you are judged as not local based on what you look like), especially not one that can do anything more than an individual musician could do themselves. Not to mention, if it isn't Cantonese pop music, it's not going to happen. Even the so-called "bands" are just Cantonese-pop "bands" that pretend they can play instruments. Therefore, I have to approach overseas labels, such as US labels where I am sure "what you look like racially" isn't so much of an issue...

Can it not be taboo by now discipline is equal

Don’t talk like a human and don’t give them your age. That’s how they determine the amount manipulation they’ll plan to use on you. Bad people take advantage of good people especially the dying music industry. Talk to them professionally and let them know that you’ve watched multiple music label manipulation KZfaq videos and you won’t stand for their bullshit. Take control of your music and let them know!

😇🇩🇴 please help god will bles you 🇩🇴😇

I do have a song called keep us going it is definately good can anybody listen and get me a deal . ‘Keep us goin’

“I do like this” *delete*😂

All a label is someone trying to make a buck off your work. And they get paid first…no thanks

You seem like the kind of person that doesn't even know how to be approachable yourself. What's the point of even pitching to you when it's clear that you don't really know what you're looking for yourself? What's even the point of using a record company if you expect the artist to do all the work and you only come in when you feel like you can come in and help out? You know not every artist can market themselves. I sure as hell wouldn't know how to market myself to save my life because all I know is the music aspect. And why do you make it seem like artist that ask for a bit more help from record company is like handholding? Why not learn to take artists under your wing And teach them? You talk about how you want a symbiotic relationship with your artist, what if part of that is mentoring and guiding your artist? If I was going to sign with a record company I would want to know the record company could mentor me and guide me and help me and develop me. That's what I want from a company. I don't want a record company to say oh you need to do all the work yourself and we only come in if we feel like what you're doing or the way that you're doing it is good enough for us to decide to help you. It's like really? You're not a major label, you're an independent label. You should be able to help your artist a little bit more if your artist needs a little bit more help. I wouldn't want to sign with you even if I could. it's a pass from me

Why in the world would anyone want someone else in their artistic path? Go for getting signed, we’ll see how it works out. Can’t believe young people are so desperate

Hi my EP is nearly complete can I send it to you. No rush to release. Maybe you could involved will send it to you formally how can I contact you ? Thanks Philip