How to ACTUALLY Release Music as an Independent Artists
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If you’re new to my channel, my name is Philip Davidson. I’m a music producer and engineer with over a decade of experience in the industry. Tracks I’ve worked on have accumulated over 100 million streams. My productions and engineering contributions have helped artists secure major record deals and advance their careers. Given this is a CZcams channel, and anyone can claim anything, I’ll give you some specifics below so you can verify for yourself if you like.
Artists and producers I've worked with include:
Ed Sheeran, Little Simz, Rihanna, Dave, Pa Salieu, Skrillex, Demi Lovato, MIA, Andrew Watt, DJ Mustard, Ilya, Digital Farm Animals, Two Door Cinema Club, Faithless, Eli Brown, Hannah Boleyn, Yxng Bane, Becky Hill, Tom Zanetti, Muni Long, Rex Kudo, Sophie, Ali Tamposi, Poo Bear, Nadia Rose, Kojo Funds, Burna Boy, Daniel Bedingfield, Lianne La Havas, Jasmine Thompson, Jorja Smith, Anne-Marie, Mahalia, artists who have been picked up by major labels, more who have been dropped by majors, and too many independent artists to name.
How I got here…
Early years: Started learning music by playing the recorder with my dad and brother. Learned trumpet, guitar, and bass. Played in orchestras, brass bands, and rock bands.
16 years old: Taught myself Ableton Live, Pro Tools, and Cubase.
17 years old: Met my first mentor, Martin Rushent (BRIT Award Winner, Human League, The Stranglers, Buzzcocks).
18 years old: Earned Grade 8 in Classical Trumpet.
21 years old: Graduated from LIPA (Performing arts university set up by Paul McCartney).
22 years old: Mentored by James Rushent (Does It Offend You Yeah, The Prodigy, Dillon Francis).
23 years old: Became Production Manager at London music venue The Bedford, engineered 500+ artists (including Ed Sheeran, Jorja Smith, Jasmine Thompson). Started DJing London clubs.
24 years old: Stage-managed/tour-managed/FOH for shows and festivals with up to 15,000 people.
25 years old: Began a 4-year relationship with Warner Music Group, working at The Firepit, a creative content hub and recording studio, to develop new and potential signings (Anne-Marie, Mahalia). Mentored by Richard Woodcraft (Grammy Winner, Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys).
26 years old: Became a freelance recording engineer.
27 years old: Produced for Sam Tompkins, leading to his signing with Island Records (UMG).
28 years old: COVID hit, explored ideas of becoming a DJ/Producer. Continued writing/producing/engineering for major label and independent artists.
30 years old: Got married to the love of my life. Shifted my focus to working with independent artists.
31 years old: Became a father.
32 years old: Started CZcams.
Today: I create content to educate artists on their career development based on my experiences over the last decade in the music industry. I’ve opened a free community to help independent artists work through challenges and enable growth. I continue to produce for artists as my primary focus, and I will continue to grow my career, including more major label work, songwriting, and achieving high-streaming records. As I find more success, I will continue to be fully transparent with my progress and process.
To everyone who's doing anything in music: Music is lifelong, and we're all at different points in our own journey. You will continually face problems, but it's the solutions you choose that will determine the places you see along the road.
Whether you find a career or a voice, consider it a success.
Keep creating. May your passion always outweigh your obstacles.
Never quit,
Phil
FULL DISCLOSURE
I make content to build my career-but I’m playing a different game than most. While many producers are hired to help with a single track, my goal is to help artists build careers. I build trust with artists by sharing everything I know for free, and I make money when they choose to work with me 1-on-1 on their music.
As an artist I hate everything about this
It’s definitely not like when I was a kid for sure. A totally different music industry. It’s up to you as an artist to decide what route you take. There is a huge power to social media, I’d rather not just leave that on the table.
@@producedbyphilit’s not “power”. It’s a hamster wheel that feeds off your energy. If you want to be a hamster - that’s fine. But it has nothing to do with creating art. I love how elegantly you substituted MUSIC for CONTENT - because that’s exactly what you’re going to produce - content, not music.
@producedbyphil oh yea, wow, thank you for influencing only fans with DIY content designed to make money they say it's the best
The title how I’m releasing music not creating it. Release music however u want unless ur watching this video then get creative
@@NEONNOONEthat's why most of the content I make is toward artists and trying to build community from and independent who didn't start making content after they blew up. I use my very... very raw personality to drive attention to myself and not music. I thinknits been working I usually get 3-4 subs per live now
I love this video it reminded me of watching that whole interview, it’s literally just post content and find what works for you.
I’m commonly seeing SO many artists complain about making content, but if you love your music, your content is just an EXTENSION of your music, it’s just a way to get people to SEE your music, treat your content like art!
TikTok is NOT the only platform there’s SO many platforms out there.
Threads has been an amazing one for me and I’m finally building a following there.
You also don’t have to make super cringey content, GET CREATIVE my friends!
Content is the BEST opportunity we’ve ever had to get our music out GLOBALLY from our comfy chair at HOME!
WE are INCREDIBLY lucky to live in the time we do as indie artists, stop complaining about content and start being grateful we have this opportunity.
Don’t expect success overnight.
Spend a lot of time experimenting to find what works for you, and then once you do find that thing GO ALL IN!
It’s not easy and there’s TONS of others out there that want it real bad.
Stay true to yourself and make your dreams come true!
You got this.
Best of luck my fellow creative friends ✌️
Doing that week after week after week = burnout
100% agreed, or at least it would be for me, that’s why I made the alternative suggestion towards the end of the video if you didn’t get the chance to watch yet
Just when I thought music couldn't become more soulless 🤮🤮🤮
Nobody is saying make soulless music. These guys are music marketing experts. We can all learn something from them to apply to our own release strategies.
I am sorry to possibly disappoint a lot of people who think that is impossible. You're just making excuses. Of course, I don't know every single situation y'all are in but I do know that a lot of people are just making excuses. I am a music artist myself. I produce, write, record, mix and master all my music. I post short form content 5 times a week and I release a new song every 2 weeks on all streaming platform along with some kind of a music video to my channel. I have my regular day job. I go to the gym 3-4 times a week. I play soccer and basketball once a week and meet my family. Everything is possible. Stop making excuses. Peace🙏
I’m sorry but these guys aren’t your average independent artist.
True, but they are certainly proving the concept of driving traffic from social media to Spotify. So for me, it becomes a question of what can we learn from them. The idea of frequent releasing I don't think is viable or wise for most independent artists, but creating a consistent flow of content is.
@@producedbyphil I see some producers stack up to 5-10 songs and only then start releasing weekly to get into the algorithm
LMAOOO….yeahhh
For instance Connor Price is already an actor kinda easy to transition to a successful music artist with preexisting fans and attention.
You’re right, they’re were already in the entertainment industry to begin with. They are just industry plants.
Its pretty sad that artists have to make vacuous brain rot tiktoks to get anyone to pay attention.
Damn, id rather just have no listeners than have to pander to the algorithm and wag my tail for tidbits.
Respect to the artists that are committed enough for that amount of work though.
Yeah man it's pretty crazy right now. But at the same time, this isn't the only way of doing it. If an artist approached me and said they didn't want to do a social media lead campaign, we could think of something completely different. Maybe do something like organise a Mad Decent Block Party type thing like Diplo and Major Lazer used to do back in the day, create the event, then let others do the promotion. I think it's just really important to listen and let the artist and their music lead the conversation, something a lot of people just don't take the time to do.
@@producedbyphilAll that’s money independent artist don’t have to start all that ..
@@kojoefante u wot m8
literally me right now. 40 videos not really following a trend posting regularly and the algorithm caps me
@@8.0DOGMA Just checked out your TikTok and IG, presuming that you are @8.0dogma
Here's a few suggestions that my help the algorithm capping
1. Show your face to the camera and make the content feel more natural
2. Experiment with a different part of the song, sounds like your using the intro at the moment
3. There's less than 10 videos on your channel. The algorithm needs to find your audience, so post around 30 then give us an update of progress.
Hope this helps, and please head over to our free community in the description if you'd like some more support
Kudos to everyone who wants to pursue this kind of content creation, but I find the whole thing very vapid and baseless.
Music and art should be feeding culture not manipulating it.
That being said, if it gets you paid good for you. Talented people deserve money!
Edit: I am not referring to the content creator with this comment! Specifically artists like Russ and Nic D who release music so frequently
Yeah I hear that man. I don’t really agree with the frequent releasing as to me it devalues the art, but my solution to that at the end by creating versions of a song, and using Nic D and Connor Price content strategy, that I think is a great idea.
Thanks for your edit, appreciate that. Let me know if you’ve got anything topic wise you’re interested in my converting. Thanks for the support.
lol as an artist i found a studio, learned to produce, mix and master. soon man i will be there. Thanks for the free knowledge man!
Wow only 70 subs? You're gonna blow up mate, your videos are good!
thanks man, really appreciate your support
Definitely blew up
I generally don’t comment on videos but mate. You have another subscriber today. Wonderful video. I plan on looking through your videos and staying tuned. Wonderful.
Thanks man. Really appreciate that!
For me as music producer who doing everything by myself, just EVERYTHING, its just imposible to release even a single every week or two and three weeks. So yeah 😅 For an independent artist who does everything himself, it's simply impossible to properly complete so many tracks and then release them regularly, it's a huge amount of work, I've tried. And waiting 4 weeks makes no sense. Because the chances that you, as a beginner, will get into a playlist in Spotify are simply super small. It is definitely not worth it. All this matters if you already have an audience and you are warming them up before releasing something new. But if you are a new person in the industry and few people know you, all these strategies do not work. First, you just need to release music often and shoot interesting content so that you have a library and the viewers of your videos have something to listen to. And here the main thing is just to continue on, no matter what.
You’re right. Consistency and continued growth is the most important. There are two parts to it, making music and creating visibility. Keep doing both, and get better at both and the audience will find you. Set a release schedule that works for you. I usually suggest 4-6 singles a year. I’ve just set up a community to help independent artists release music consistently without going broke. Come join us, it’s free!
Just as you I do all the things myself, and all of that after 2 jobs, releasing weekly doesn't make sense for me but I've been releasing monthly this year (a step up from releasing every two months last year) and I think this is a release schedule that works for me.
@@soulofwaves It's great. If you make quality music and really put creativity into it and not just the desire to make money, then it's a great start. I wish you success in your development
@@altermoremusic thanks, I'm still learning so my music is not professional yet, but I'm seeing it as a process of learning and getting better over time. Wish you the best as well in your project.
I am a music artist myself. I produce, write, record, mix and master all my music. I post short form content 5 times a week and I release a new song every 2 weeks on all streaming platform along with some kind of a music video to my channel. I have my regular day job. I go to the gym 3-4 times a week. I play soccer and basketball once a week and meet my family. Everything is possible, stop making excuses. Peace🙏
I’m currently on a monthly release schedule and it’s definitely tough making new music and keeping up with content, but it’s also a fun challenge
Nice man. The repetition will make you grow crazy!
these people aren’t artist imo, they are in it for the vanity fair
their music is like instant noodle to be, might be fun to listen to first time but i dont wanna listen to it again at all
Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching
As an aspiring artist, I love everything about this..and your videos.
Thanks so much!
Hi! Great video! Thanx for good information and content! We are new indie artist from Belarus. Our first song took a half year to make... We made some snippets before and music video after relese and I really can't even imagine how artists relese songs every week and doing content for tiktok 😅 It is so much work, like a songs factory, one by one... Really hard, when you have full time job and you want something to eat 😅
Yeah totally. The amount of effort and time it takes to make a song is totally dependent on genre too. But keep up the good work. If you want some free support I've just created a group to help independent artists release music consistently without going broke. Link is in the video description.
9:11 Great video and a different approach. Artists like Nic D, Connor, and Russ release songs consistently, creating high-quality music in high volume. Their strategy revolves around 12 months of consistent output. Due to various constraints, many indie artists struggle to create a catalog of songs in a year. The key here seems to be consistency in creating songs and producing content.
100% completely agree. Do what you can feasibly do as an independent artist, and keep it consistent, that's how you grow.
Tip: don't be an independant artist. This is a tip for myself too, cause altought I make all my stuff, you HAVE to collaborate and get into scenes, then you can perform live. Any shortcomings, say you don't like posting TikToks to bring in attention, well your bandmate just so happens to.
I agree, these strategy are so short term in terms of RELEASING music that burnout/displeasure is inevitable, but I think every artist/group should stay active on TikTok and social media. Could be posting funny vid, a practice sesh snip it, behind the scenes stuff. Far more manageable way to keep a presence. Then incorporate these strats when releasing a single/album, and even better, your fans will be more excited because they're not expecting a weekly release.
And great video. Loved how you broke it down at the end. Especially valuable advice was to Release music 3-4 weeks BEFORE you starting marketing it.
I’s rather take my time and when my projects are done and if i can release them monthly than i will
All eggs in one basket is a bad idea for mental health. Keep a life and keep music in perspective
Thanks for your comment :)
Yep bro , im doing my mba while making music, i would never do only music , i cant think of only making music for making music
This is a good video, and I respect you for trying to help people. But man, this makes me so sad. I wish these type of “artists” would just stick to creating content. TikTok ruined the music industry in a way that I did not anticipate. Very dark, diluted time for art.
Agree, feels like it`s more about self exposure nowadays than the music itself in order to make it. I feel sorry for all the introverted unknown geniuses out there
@@hanspersson2015 Exactly! Introverts often make the best art. Not to mention how much mental energy you’re syphoning away from your art into the rat race for this path. Just a giant bummer, and it makes it exactly like a mind numbing 9-5 which is what we’re all trying to get away from.
Thanks so much for your comment, it’s such a good debate
There was a band called The Beatles, and they went viral because they wrote hit songs. There was a band called The Doors, and they were the house band at the Whisky A Go Go for six months in 1966. They went viral without MTV or social media when they released their first album in 1967. Van Halen did the same thing. They were a cover band, and a lot of people wanted to see them play ZZ Top and Deep Purple songs, but it was their first album that made them go viral. Olivia Rodrigo wrote an album called Sour, and it went viral because every song was a banger. Write great songs, and then you will play the iHeart Music Festival in Las Vegas at the T-Mobile Arena, 500 feet from the casinos on Las Vegas Blvd.
I agree, those artists did write great works, but it's not as simple as that. They're many other artists/groups who also wrote great music that was hardly heard.
Those artist still had people behind them marketing, thinking about the $$$, logistics of touring, how to properly INTRODUCE those great bands to the world.
But I do agree, once your visible and performing. If you're making great music, then people will notice. However, Getting past that initial step of people hearing your great music is the difficult part. So I'll leave a question for you and myself:
How can we stand out?
This is a great video. Please keep making content on this stuff.
Will do mate. Thanks so much for the feedback and thanks for watching.
I made 500 songs last month in every language I could. I have a solid dancehall album with single. I have an INTENSELY good punjabi rap album with single on the way. I relased an album today with 12 songs and all the same lyrics, just slightly changed, I hate it except for one song. My corrido-trap wants to fight Peso Pluma on TV. I wrote some real estate music. A funeral song.
Nice! great work 👏
500 songs in a month? Well, I can just imagine the quality of such "songs"......🤡
@@sidalientv You don't have to fucking imagine just check out my Blues playlist
@@sidalientv You idiots live in a special little 30-day window in history. In the grand scheme of things you're a blink. Crying about 50 blinks of time when white supremacy and corporation blocked all indigenous music from being heard
Wow! Me Too!
Oh, no wait, I mean, I bought a new Virtual Drum Plugin and it came with 500 sample beats. My bad!
Man, this is the better vídeo i've ever watched. The quality, the message, everything. Keep Going, you gain my sub!
Thanks so much, really appreciate that, I’ll get making more around this sort of topic. Let me know if there’s anything specific that you’d like to see more of!
W/ how professional this video is, I assumed you had like 100k. Nice content!
Wow thanks!! We will get there :)
My daughter (an actress and singer that I produce) has over 1.6 million followers in TikTok and about 300k in Instagram. Tons of viral videos.
We’ve been working super hard. We released 2 songs lately and both of them flopped. We can not yet understand how could this happened 😮.
All of sudden while she was welcome for her content, a lot of hate flooded the releases out of nothing.
There’s not specific strategies but work hard, experiment and do not give up.
So sorry to hear about the hate, that's never nice. Sounds like you have a really talented daughter there. Feel free to reach out if you need anything at all, all the details in the description. Thanks so much for your comment.
Good luck to everyone ❤
Really like the idea of having a feature and capitalizing on joint audiences. Nice video!
Appreciate it!
If you’re worried about production costs and planning a re release it might make sense to keep production simple on the first release then invest in better production on tracks that are landing. You could also find producers and mixers who are decent but not established and willing to collaborate for cheap up front
Thanks for the video, subbed
Great point, thanks so much for your comment and sub Russ!
This is funny. I did a lot of this myself for my last single release on Spotify.. I made the beat/produced it myself, I wrote it myself, recorded the vocals in my own home office, done the cover art myself and even the Spotify Canvas myself... And I realized that it's extremely futile hahahaha... I also seem to have released it on the worst day I could've as well. Even got TikTok which I HATE and Instagram Threads. I hate that you have to do all this extra sh*t now just to get heard. But oh well what can you do.
Thanks for your comment. Would love to see you IG/TikTok to see what sort of content you've been posting.
If you need cheap content for socials record a live show or open mic and create clips from the best bits, maybe add some of the lyrics on the content of the best song lines
Seems easy but Expensive for an upcoming artist
Doesn’t have to be. All the content would be DIY for free. Come join the community we’ve just set up, helping independent musician release music consistently without going broke. It’s free!
@@producedbyphil link?
In the description
My release cycle is an album every 3 or so years. That's it.
Trying to release a song every week is absolute insanity. Especially if you play in an actual band and play instruments. There’s absolutely no way you’re going to be able to learn a song in one week. It seems like playing real instruments is basically playing the game on hard mode these days. Everyone just uses beats but I personally greatly prefer real instruments over beats 90% of the time
Just keep on writing as what John and Paul have done. Mix n master. And upload to youtube.
Yes you are right. Writing and releasing are the two pillars of success in music.
Great content man! Working on my first songs and this video helps. instant sub! Keep rocking
That's awesome man congrats! If you want some free support literally a few days ago I've started a group to help independent artists release music consistently without going broke. Link is in the video description.
As someone doing it as a passion of love, I'm looking for a different approach that I want to create myself as I go that involves recording and mixing myself, releasing music directly into the public domain, only using streaming services if it's necessary to direct people to my website where you can download flacs that you actually own unlike greedy artists who use drm abuse to give the paying customer an inferior experience, won't be lost if I disappear from a streaming service and people can donate if they want to, and people are free to create their own renditions of it on their own instruments since no one can play my piano sonatas as intended on a modern piano anyway.
I want my attention to come from people who genuinely love the kind of music I create, not people pulled in by emotionally manipulative tictok videos which I won't create.
Great idea!
8:00 this exactly my strategy and my music still doesn´t really get listened a lot.
Come join our free community and let us help you find out why, the link is in the description
helpful ❤
Thanks! Glad it helped
Kudos for working your way up the "how to do it" ladder. But what credentials do you have to teach folks how to do things? who have you worked with? Who have you produced? I've come to learn people who list their gear followed by their social media channels haven't really done enough to qualify as a teacher to anyone.
OMG you are so right! I've just updated the description on the video, hope this helps you understand a bit more about who I am and what I've done.
Nic D sounds like he doesn’t even care about his music. I hate the whole Quantity over Quality stuff. You don’t get longevity for one, and I don’t even think Nic D has one song that I’ve ever heard. It’s what makes Spotify take more money from us and it’s why streaming pays low per stream. They kno people are phucking the system. Tik tok fans aren’t long term, and if they are it’s only gonna be half of them. It’s gonna be gone within the next week and that’s why Nic has to make so many songs. So it’s great you want to fart out crap songs with no tours and a flat boring fan base….but if you’re in it for the actual music then I wouldn’t
Besides if all artists decide to do this, which a lot are now…then the audience is just gonna get bored of it and notice the business side of it. And then it won’t work anymore.
Thanks for your comment :)
Subscribed thank you for the help. Could I pay you for a consultation or to do this?
Thanks some much! Click the link in the description and get in contact, I’d be happy to help!
STEP 0 make good MUSIC, produce, mix, master. STEP 1 don´t make music, STEP 2 don´t make music, STEP 3 don´t make music, STEP 4 don´t make music, STEP 5 don´t make music, STEP 6 don't make music. THAT'S why you are not a musician producer. YOU ARE AN "ARTIST" digital marketeer. WE ARE DOOMED.
That’s one way. You could also get into $10million of debt with a major record label, or put on your own shows and build things up grassroots. This is a completely free alternative, and I think there are definitely pros and cons to their direct approach as I mentioned in the video. Take whatever helps you on your artistic journey. Everyone’s path is different and everyone’s idea of success is different.
Best comment ever!!!!😂🤣
Rihanna already knew this is going to happen 10 years ago.
Or you could say F you to spotify and streaming altogether in favor of cultivating fans instead of passive "listeners". Streaming sucks for artists. Build your own site on your own terms and use your content to drive people THERE.
This totally works, especially if you already have some sort of fanbase. I'd offer a physical copy of the record on LP/EP/Cassette, give the fans something more for their money than just a download or streaming.
What can I do? I have a whole bunch of unreleased songs right now so I plan on releasing a song a week for the rest of the year. After new years, I’ll slow down to every 2-3 weeks
Click the link in the description and get in contact. I’ll be happy to help you out.
one thing you forgot to mention is that you have to sacrifice a first born to the algorithm gods in hopes your content will be picked up
Connor and his wife had their first kid as his career was blowing up because of TikTok.
@producedbyphil well I'm a professional content creator who drives listeners to Spotify with content on all platforms. If you're not boosting with paid ads you're playing scratch off tickets. Even with paid ads you're kinda hoping and praying those views and listens are real people
I wouldn't suggest using paid ads unless you're actually selling something specific to a captive audience such as a show in a specific city that you can hyper target with ads.
@producedbyphil I would suggest building a local fan base. 100k views don't mean shit if half them are bots and the other half don't remember you. Everyone is acting like there's this secret code you can type in that gets instant viral success. All "instant viral success" will do will give is 15mins. Are you trying to "pop off" or "have a career"?
@@SecretSocietyofGoths A great point. But it's very specific to an individual artist and their career goals and ideas of success. I was talking to a group a few months back who was selling out a 2,500 venue in their home town but was struggling to break out to a larger geographic audience. And likewise I speak to artists that do not live in locations with vibrant nightlifes, so the options for venues that will support their genre of music is very limited. In many circumstances and situations the option of using the internet and social media to perform and spread your music becomes the best option.
What's a "piece of content" if not music?
I cant think of a single artist I listen to that releases weekly or even monthly. They release an album a year at most, with single drops in the months before. Maybe an EP here or there. I wonder who's even listening to these guys? It's certainly not me.
I have no interest in a workflow that won't allow me to create a full, cohesive album before releasing anything. Besides, as a listener, I hate when too many songs are released before an album drop. Ruins any excitement I feel when the full body of work is actually released.
Thanks for your comment. The strategy that I explain at the end of the video should be perfect then.
Inlet Sports Bar cares more about what actually works in the live weekend performances. We're headbanging at the club. 😅 Let others sell crappy music online while we're jamming the good stuff!
It's funny how these videos are not aimed at actual musicians 😂😂😂
Their not aimed at musicians, they're aimed at independent artists that want help growing their career and don't have a lot of money, but are happy to give up some of their free time to pursue their dream.
What’s your thoughts on DJ/music producer artist releasing independently? Like I can produce the track and do the mix & master but will still need a singer on it. Most singers on websites like Soundbetter want at least 150-200$ and 50% royalty cut. Do you have any tips to reduce that cost or know another way to make it more profitable? Is it crustal to have 100% of the royalties from the streams in order to make this work?
DJ producers can deffo do this, the majority of content for this idea is based around the performance of the song (singing), but you could flip this to DJing. James Hype is awesome at content, check him if you don't know him. In terms of vocals, theres a few options.
1. Collab with artists, go 50/50 on everything, master and pub.
2. Use splice loops for vocals or royalty free assets
3. AI vocals, sing a song yourself, and use something like audimee ai to resing (I do this for BGVs and fx vocals all the time, super dope)
4. Release instrumental, then only vocal the tracks the resonate with the public
Hope this helps. Hit me up if you wanna talk more about it.
@@producedbyphil Thank you! This helps a lot. Will definitely hit you up! Just discovered your channel and I love your work keep it up!
Great video man, but these guys are truly unicorns. A major issue emerging is the adoption of similar strategies by AI content creators. With predictions that around 90% of online content will be AI-generated by 2026, real content currently has an advantage-if it can be found. However, as data analysts and SEO experts craft AI content to exploit algorithms, standing out in a sea of synthetic material will become increasingly difficult when we can only produce a finite amount of quality content. AI will profoundly change the way we create and consume content-both directly through its use and indirectly through its dominance.
That’s so interesting to hear, if this is the case, I’m gonna start making AI content to promote music!
@producedbyphil I started getting big into learning AI a couple years back and have been watching it gain traction over the years. Feel free to reach out anytime. Some of the more recent developments with generative models are pretty mindblowing. I've been trying to come up with some ways I Can help educate people on what already exists, whats to come, and some of the good and bad of implementing ai.
Can you release a video how to actually make it as a music producer
I may do this on another channel at some point in the future. But check out Dark Label here on youtube, Dan and the guys over there seriously know there stuff when it comes to producer development. If there's any specifics that you're struggling with feel free to get in contact and I'd be happy to help.
Less than 100 subs woooow .. excellent man... keep up the good work
Thanks mate!!
fantastic advice, Philip.
Thanks so much mate
Okay, tell me. How do you actually put out quality material once a week, every week? It can't be done. Unless you're okay with releasing crap. I'm not.
And meanwhile, who pays the bills? Just creating and producing the music, takes a lot of time. Plus creating content, videos, etc. and competing with 100,000 thousand song released daily. Putting money on production, marketing, releasing sounds ok, but where the money will come from? Good intentions and pipe dreams. I already quit. Good luck!
There's no money put on marketing, everything organic reaching DIY content.
Nice work bro
thanks mate!
Just goes to show greed can ruin anything especially art
This is by far the most valuable and well summarized content I've watched on youtube about the subject.
Thanks so much. Really appreciate that.
Great content, man.
Thanks!
"find a new beat"
you could make one tho???
Yeah man. Totally.
Who tryna collab 💪🏾💯
Unfortunately for most the money is in selling shovels and not finding gold.. Sad face..
Not quite sure what you mean by this? but thanks for the comment :)
Advices like this is one reason, why everything repeats an repeats and repeats... Sad
Nice one Phil!
Thanks!
Yeah! But the thing is Nic D makes really really great music and the ability to do that is very rare!
True, but I'm sure if you asked him he'd say he wasn't born with a god given gift. This guy work hard and developed the talent. Take the name of his book for instance "You Don't Want It Bad Enough". If you want it, you can get it.
@@producedbyphil I concur...but I doubt that's applicable to everyone. It takes a person with a unique type of wiring what he does.
Yeah man I think you’re right. And I think that’s what makes him so unique as you say. When you put in the time to develop a craft, you start to figure out what sets you apart from the rest, and when you find something that works, double down on it. I think you can point to every successful artist and point out the one thing they do better or different to everyone else that sets them apart from the rest.
It's a joke, isn't it?
What is a joke ?
Keep it up bro.
Thanks man will do!
About as indie as “bedroom music” Billie Eilish
Hahaha that’s actually funny. But there’s a lot we can learn from these guys. Come join us in the free community that I’ve made, link in the description. We’re here to help independent artists release music consistently without going broke.
Great video
thanks so much!
manage me twin
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If those numbers are true ! How much are royalties are given away! ?
Lol what do you mean, you keep all your royalties assuming you don't have splits with producers or are signed to a label where u only receive a certain percentage. An independent artist who fully owns the rights to his music/production is entitled to 100% of their royalties.
Nic was getting 100% royalties in the beginning because he was buying beats outright. Now I believe he works doing some sort of split with his producers. We're demonstrating that without a major label you can own your music, make money from it, and make really good money from it!
Totaly! In another video Nic talks about how he signed one track to a major label and it got no extra tracktion and was a was of time effort and resource, let alone money.
6:00 yes sounds alot but its the same work as working a 9-5 or going to school 9-5.. music is not just "music" if you wanna do it... its a career... its for people who are passionate and really are willing to put in the work for it. if your putting in mid effort? expect to never make it, u fail, and nobody likes you. If you put in iconic effort? expect to go viral, get put on the top 100's, and become a fucking star... its all up to you whether or not you wanna do it or not.. NOTHING IN THIS WORLD THAT HAS HUGE RESULTS , IS EASY!!!
this is awful. sad.
That’s one perspective. But $250k a year from music is damn respectable.
Great content ☺️
Thanks!
These things - trix wid da content - seem to focus only on kids and Pop/Rap etc audiences who are really only after novelty - and their narcotic drip, drip, drip ov da Beat. I can't say I have heard of any of these people - but I don't Spotifry or Tok Tuk.
What, if anything, is working for acts who are making serious music that is not part of the Tok Tuk content hamster wheel of suckfulness?
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Thanks so much for your comment. Let me know what Artist you listen to, I’d be really interested to investigate what they are doing to get ahead.
@@producedbyphil Thanks for coming back. I don't think I regularly listen to any new acts. Probably better to look at what I do. I deffo need a more thoughtful audience than the usual. :-)
Problem I've got is whenever I upload content with my own songs to tiktok, they get muted. It's doing me head in.
Ahh this could be that you distributor is not allowing your songs to be used on TikTok. Message your distributor and ask if it’s anything to do with them. If you need anymore support please feel free to join our freee community of independent artists, link in the description.
@@producedbyphil Cheers Phil!
You’re welcome mate. Lemme know if that fixes things.
Hmmm
D2C😊😊😊😊
100% that’s where the money is up