The music business is amazingly tough to get into for thousands of artist's out there but Marc Wayne and the Oklahoma Dirt Band did it without the millions of dollars a record label would spend in less than a year. The band simply started their own record label and paid $900.00 recording 2 songs that were wrote by Marc Wayne and his Mother Marylin Fancher in a studio in Oklahoma City. Then paid HMG Nashville - hmgnashville.com $1,000 to distribute the song to over 1,000 radio stations world wide.
(PRWEB) June 14, 2005 -- The music business is very secretive and especially the big record labels do not like artists to know their secrets. The major record labels pick and choose artists by their looks first and then they look at how good of a singer they are.
The band worked hard writing new songs and practicing 2-3 times a week. They built their own website that you can see here http://www.okdirt.com and began building their fan base which grows daily.
The song they put out on radio is a inspirational country song called "Listen to the Preacher Man" that was written by Marc Wayne's Mother Marylin Fancher and is #62 on the Christian Country Chart at http://www.ccma.cc which is the Christian Country Music Award website.
It is somewhat costly to get your music out there on radio but not nearly as much as most people think. With radio promotion companies like HMG Nashville for $1,500 they will send your Country song out to 2,200 country and western radio stations and promote it for one month. They also send you a tracking report for 2 months so you'll know how and where your song is being played.
HMG also can shoot and promote your music video to over 100 TV/Cable stations and Music Video shows aired all over the world. You can also get a distribution deal through HMG which get's your album out to thousands of stores and online download sites all over the internet.
HMG is just one example of the many radio promotion agencies out there that help thousands of artists to get their music heard around the world. Do a search on the internet for "Radio Promotion" to find the right agency for your genre of music and get that music out there.
The simple truth is that the Record labels can spend alot of money on you and promote you but they make you pay back every cent they spend before you ever get rich from selling your CD's. Most record labels will keep all money made and pay the artist up to 10% of the money made from CD sales.
By starting your own record label and paying a radio promotion company yourself you are ensuring that you make 100% of the money from all sales and you own all rights to your songs forever. The bottom line is, you are in complete control of your music and that is the way it should be.
Be sure to check out the websites http://www.okdirt.com and http://www.hmgnashville.com To download some MP3's.
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