A little advice about shopping your music

Hey everyone! So today, I’m going to give you guys a little bit of advice about shopping your music.

Before we get into it, let’s have our moment of silence. 

At this time, I would like all of us to take a moment of silence and pray to God to help us to do the righteous thing at all times. Take a minimum of 5 minutes and pray for this. 

Now back to the show

A little advice about shopping your music

Don’t do it.

So for those of you that don’t know what shopping your music is, it’s basically when you have some music and you send it out to lawyers or A&R reps or managers or artists and you expect them to do something with your song. 

And the reason why I say don’t do it is because it’s almost a fruitless venture to do. 

If you are trying to shop your music to an artist or manager that even has a little bit of a following, you know for a fact that those people probably either have experience (and good experience at that) making songs or they have a team of highly trained people who can already make hits. 

And it’s not just that. But shopping out your music alone is kind of an older thing. Not many people do it nowadays because of the rise of the internet. 

The internet has actually brought about people being able to spread the message of their music on their own and in reality they don’t need to actually send it out to people anymore. 

The bible even talks about things like this

The bible even says that we are not to talk to the king without being asked. 

And when we go to these people, we put them in the position of a king and we cannot simply go to someone without their permission.

And that simply goes true even today. 

It’s true for today’s music business. 

In today’s music business, there is a rule and if you’ve ever spent any amount of time being in the music industry, you’ll see that the websites and the flyers say, “No unsolicited materials will be accepted.”

That literally means that you cannot go to that record label and try and push your song for them to listen to it.

You actually need a lawyer or a manager who will introduce you to those people.

And you get that lawyer and manager by selling music and making a lot of money through your music.  

And there are bad stories of musicians who tried to get into a record label but they were turned down because they tried so many times to send unsolicited materials. 

You can actually get black listed in the music industry for practicing unethical music practices and sending unsolicited materials is one of those things. 

The first few times they will send you a letter saying that they are not accepting unsolicited materials, but if you keep pestering, then they will blacklist you. 

So the moral is, it’s better to be called by the record label than to rub your face all up in their faces.

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Here is a blog article about how to distribute your own Christian music.