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Tatak EDSA 25 celebrates People Power anniversary with music and dance
PNoy says music made People Power successful.

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It doesn’t take a look at Talib Kweli, one of the best rappers by far he sold only 60, 000 in one week. But does that mean he’s a bad rapper? No. Same with Nas he doesn’t come close to selling a million but he’s the best rapper out by far.

If anything Record sales show the incompetence of the American people when it comes to hip-hop.

lots do, since its all over record stores. But I don’t see the market.

You know, the ones that work for labels, like Reprise, Hopless, Island Records and others. Are they called producers?

I do rap and its truly poetic but are people still into that

Does the singer have to put on headphones? How do you record a song?

I ask this question on account of the flood of “free music download” questions that appear every day.
An artist records a new song
If 500 copies are sold, the singer makes a small anount of money
If 5,000 copies are sold, the singer makes a worthwhile amount of money
If 50,000 copies are sold, the singer is beginning to get rich
If people download the song for free, each download is a lost sale and the singer makes nothing.
A singer friend of mine recently released her second CD.
She had to pay for studio time, she had to pay musicians and she had to pay backing singers. In addition she had to pay for manufacture, distribution and promotion of the CD. All this cost $22,000.
It is an investment. Think how many copies she has to sell simply to get her $22,000 back. Only after sales have produced revenue of $22,000 does she actually begin making money for herself (to live on).
Legitimate download sites pay mandatory fees – part of which gets back to the artist. The $1 per track charged simply reimburses the site for the fees it has paid out to handle the music, and perhaps a little profit to keep the site itself going.
Why are young people so reluctant to pay their buck for a song that the artist has spent so much time and money on creating?
An artist’s viewpoint http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aj_LS8c2DB2cFyX8mVRtr.Dty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090820185139AAHpHDx&show=7#profile-info-4hwwmNxeaa
and the possible consequences of illegal downloading http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/274415

My friend and I have good voices but we haven’t made a song yet, but we want to get signed so how can we do so? What would you recomend as a decent record label?Or what would be our best move from here?