How to Get a Distribution Deal

In order to get a distribution deal you must attract the record labels to you. Record labels want money! They like talent, but they love money. The surest way to attract record labels to you is by selling a lot of your music or getting millions of people to play your music online. Thanks to technology you don't even have to get people to buy it, you just have to get them to play it online. Record labels view website plays like radio spins. Soulja Boy created his hit song out of his basement home studio and put it all over the Internet. He was averaging well over 10,000 plays a day on his MySpace music player. He also used SoundClick, FaceBook and Friendster. Between the four online networks Soulja Boy was averaging well over 40,000 plays a day before landing a record deal. The Internet makes it a lot easier! Ludacris made is own album/demo by himself an sold it out of his car. He sold over 30,000 copies in three months. The labels came to him and the rest is history. The amazing thing about Ludacris' story is that he did it before the Internet. There was no MySpace or YouTube when Ludacris first came out. You all have a huge advantage over Ludacris, you have the Internet.

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• Digital Distribution Deals
• Music Distribution
• Digital Distribution Contracts