 What's up everybody once again it's Brand Man Sean and this video right here is brought to you by brandmannetwork.com because I signed myself. Now the clip that you're about to see is from a very special conversation, a really in-depth conversation that you've probably never heard anything like before when it comes to music distribution services but this particular portion of the conversation is about an artist and his experience with AWOL so if you've been wondering what it's like to actually be with one of these companies he's providing his experience and even one of his homeboys experience and after that I'm gonna do a deep dive on how you should really look at these types of services. So we're gonna hop right into the discussion I suggest you guys if you are considering working with either one of these companies go ahead and watch this on the way through or if you're already with them go ahead and watch this all the way through. So just to get things started off I'm gonna start with you Jail. How did you how did you get involved with AWOL? Because I remember you it took multiple tries for you to even get accepted with them. Yeah so I think I saw I saw an ad on Instagram leading to their profile and I know I listened to some of their artists such as like Kevin Gare and Love Songs and yeah I decided to apply around July of last year 2018 and I currently are at the time I didn't have any of my own music out I just had like maybe two covers so I tried applying and I got denied and at the same time my friend who had some songs on the way applied and he got accepted so I just started releasing stuff and then reapplied and they accepted me in October so that's how that kind of started. Have you seen any personal gain or any additional benefit from AWOL since you've been on? On my own personal music not much to be honest on my friends it's inconsistent he doesn't even know what's happening like the first is a very first song he put out first week 50,000 plays no promotion no extra anything and it was like okay if this what AWOL does like are we ready for it so that's that's what got me hyped I was like I'm ready to sign with AWOL too I want that then his second release got like 2,000 plays after like two months and then he just released another one again and it's already at 20,000 plays and he's like I don't know what the formula is he has no idea what's happening and how like to control that they do have a great like communication base as far as like you can message them with email and get some responses there but there's no physical location that's acts accessible to like the public even though they have locations like they have one in LA yet to be invited there so you can't really communicate face-to-face with some of these people so for me personally I've released the project in January and there wasn't really any push at all actually there was no push at all but from AWOL then no Instagram promotion no play listing they do claim to give more like you have a higher chance of being on Discover Weekly and such but I guess I don't really have a comparison of not being on AWOL because I didn't release anything before AWOL so I got one song made Discover Weekly on that entire project and I could see the analytics I only got like 500 plays from Discover Weekly other stuff is from because you AWOL has those big requirements that they have yeah but you pretty much didn't have anything really going on for yourself or released anything when you got accepted yeah so I just had an original on YouTube that I sent in and I think that's what really got me accepted because it was starting to gain some traction a song that I wrote a graduation song I wrote for my students at the time so that was starting to get some traction so I guess they they liked it or someone whoever was reviewing it liked it and accepted me versus the first time when I had one cover a John Legend cover that was two years old alright as you can see coming into one of these platforms might not be the most clear transparent process for you know an artist that's just starting out on those platforms and maybe I'll do an update with J.O. again that entire interview and that will really is more of a discussion is in bramannnetwork.com has been up for a good while now in there and it doesn't just include J.O. from AWOL has artists from United Masters a circle from Indiepreneur and really it really gets detailed into some perspectives some alternative perspectives on how you should really go about looking at those types of services and how you can maybe make them useful for you and we're not just talking about being an artist who logged into the platform even dealing with some possible record deals or type scenarios with those companies as well now another thing I would like to point out is just the fact that when J.O. was talking about his experience versus his friends experiences right it shows that there is something that gets done there is some help that that happens but he doesn't know how or why that happens but he's actually if alluding to some of the conversation that he had in the larger discussion he did have some positive things to say about his experiences as well so once again these platforms just like any record label situation right if you were getting a record deal and even if you were in Indie everything is particular to you and your situation you kind of have to analyze how things are going for you I'll leave that at that if you're interested in that full discussion again you can check it out at bramannnetwork.com and if you like this video go ahead and like button if you like it might as well share and if you're not subscribed you know what to do hit that subscribe