General Music Chat

What the heck. I just checked and it's not like I am raking in millions of royalties on my other songs so nothing to lose really. If one song becomes a hit and others notice, it's a foot in the door. A good investment in time for an aspiring songwriter I'd say. Probably a better deal than most major recording contracts.

Imagine a digital and internet version of the John Fogerty story, where he wasn't even allowed to cover the music he wrote because he didn't own it.

ANY contest that wants you to sign over ownership of your work is going to screw the bejesus out of you. They don't even have to put your name on the finished product. In all likelyhood, they would sell it to justin beeber and HE would get all the fame and credits / ownership rights. You would still be an unknown, poor, dimeless bastard hanging out at the local bar telling tall tales about how you really wrote that song, and nobody would believe you. You would start to carry proof that you won a contest with it, making you seem only more pathetic and clinging to the one that got away.

Not a pretty picture, is it?

There's NOTHING good that can come out of this contest, except maybe the prizes, if those are in all actuality what they say they are...

The say you win pro tools.. how do you know it's not a 30-day TRIAL ? F them.

To each his own. If you only have one good song in you, probably best not to spill it all in a contest. For others, it might open a lot of doors. Composers have been selling their music for a lot less than $7K in prizes since the days of Claudio Monteverdi. Staff writers make a pretty handsome living if they are productive at writing hits. How much did you make on your last original?? Zero?? Exactly, nuff said.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songwriter
http://www.netplaces.com/songwriting/hi ... mpires.htm

If your song is that good, you would stand a better chance of getting the hits on youtube vs. some company taking ownership, removing your name from it and reselling it to the highest bidder, but to each his own.

And, no, I don't sell my personal music (yet), but I did collaborations that have made money, and got a fair share of royalties. I learned from someone high up and inside the publishing industry on how most of these things work. I've posted very long and informative articles over the years here on publishing rights and other areas of interest to originals artists.

I might argue with flair with people like Jeff and even Glenny, but in the end, I care about fellow musicians, and have seen way too many parted with their songs and money to not call BS on schemes that fellow musos haven't seen before or want to believe in. Take the advice or not, but my work is done, warnings were shouted from the treetops. Have a great day!

How pathetic and sad really... Makes one want to leap over the counter and beat the sh*t out of those marketers.

They actually had the nads to claim in their AD, that these entries stand a chance of joining the ranks of Beatles,..U2, Etc etc etc...

More tragic than that, are the idiots who fall for that sh*t...

I said 'what the hell' and submitted one of the songs I cut from my first CD. I wrote it when I was 16 (lyrics are actually a poem written by a distant girlfriend, but that's another story), recorded and mixed it 4 years ago on my Boss BR600, when I started compiling the tunes for my CD, I heard some noise or digital artifacts in the song, so it got cut - all the original tracks had been transferred to my computer, but due to an *incident* (not me or the computer!), all the tracks were deleted, so instead of retracking the whole thing I let it lie.
I threw it up on my BM player, 'In Glass'.