Music placement companies

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Re: Music placement companies

By talontsiawd Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:57 am
Even a manager shouldn't charge up front.


Bottom line, the only way someone is going to get you on to something is if they want to, can make money from finding avenues for you to profit, etc.

Do you really think that even for $400, someone is going to take the time to take music they don't believe will sell, if they have even heard it, and push it to other people. I can't imagine having a worse job, even if the money is there.
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Re: Music placement companies

By Lampdog Wed Sep 02, 2009 3:35 am
Kon B wrote:I got a message from a music placement company through myspace a few days ago saying that they want some of my music for a film. When I checked out their website I found that you have to pay a fee for their "services".


Is that company by any chance called FASTBREAK, LOL, shit's fake man, move on. There are SO many little wanna be companies that do that same thing, and they just want your money, send u to a fake mock ass stage to perform in front of what they say is MUSIC EXECS but they aren't. They jsut want your money. U better off to just keep it moving.

Re: Music placement companies

By nyke Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:25 pm
b.read wrote:How much luck have you had with them, nyke?



Wouldn't really call it luck..

I've land plenty of placements through them though if that's what you mean
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Re: Music placement companies

By b.read Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:14 am
Luck, placements- all kind of the same thing right? :lol:

Would you recommend signing up with them?
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Re: Music placement companies

By inflict3 Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:37 am
hash brown wrote:do you have donald s. passmans all you need to know about the music industry book? he covers it very well. if you dont have it get it . thats like the bible of this siht


hahaha, i hate that book, we have it for school, and i was all down and out reading it, it does have some good info, but its such a boring read..

Re: Music placement companies

By nyke Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:30 pm
b.read wrote::lol:

Would you recommend signing up with them?



Sure
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Re: Music placement companies

By Joidibeats Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:32 pm
Do these placement companies totally accept the use of samples/does it matter to them?

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By nyke Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:30 pm
I've always been told to stay away from the samples unless i can hide them. Most of them would rather not mess with sample based material.
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Re: Music placement companies

By b.read Fri Oct 02, 2009 7:08 am
That makes sense as I'm sure at the time of picking something up they don't know how large of a project it'll be on...I'm sure it's not worth the hassle of dealing with copyrights even for SMALL projects so it makes sense that they steer away from compositions with noticeable samples in them...Chop small people! :D

Re: Music placement companies

By riggsmusik Wed May 26, 2010 7:23 pm
hash brown wrote:do you have donald s. passmans all you need to know about the music industry book? he covers it very well. if you dont have it get it . thats like the bible of this siht

I had to read this in college..truth!!!!
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