How To Make It In The Music Industry As Upcoming Artist Or Independent Artist

To make it in the music industry is not easy. Your passion must be stronger than your talent.

You must work twice as hard than established artists.

Your passion should motivate your drive to keep going no matter the obstacles on the way.

The journey to stardom is not for the fairly obsessed, it is for the die hard artists who believe the only way to make it is to keep working hard and perfecting their art and craft and doing what is right and necessary to achieve success.

Don't give up, keep pushing.

The following are some considerations to guide you on your journey to blowing up if you truly want to make it in the music industry.

1. YOU NEED TO DO SERIOUS AND CONSISTENT MARKETING FOR YOUR MUSIC

Your music doesn't suck. It's just lacking in the marketing department. If you really want to make it in the music industry you need to take marketing of your music seriously.

There are free platforms on the web to upload your music for fans to listen and share but that's not enough.

You need some reasonable amount of money to push the music. radio promotion, online promotion on blogs. playlist curators promotion. music video making and promotion and whole lot of music promotion work.

These days music is not for broke artists or for talented but poor artists. It's for those who have the talent and money to push their music career.

Additionally if you're not able to invest money then making it in the music industry will be hard.

You can take a side hustle job and use the income to support your music career.

Aside having to market your music you must have a music marketing plan or strategy to achieve your marketing goals.

2. YOU MUST DO MUSIC VIDEOS

Music videos are great and fascinating ways to get your music heard and transcend borders into other countries.

Music videos are also great for connecting with your fans and also a smart way of acquiring new fans. You can also use the video for monetization on YouTube.

If you're thinking about making it small or big you will need a music video to achieve that.

3. YOU NEED DOPE BEATS AND DOPE MUSIC PRODUCERS TO MAKE IT

The music industry is saturated and to separate yourself from the saturation you need dope beats to ride on for your music.

Dope beats require dope producers. With this you can achieve a ton of success in the music industry.

Dope beats don't just work the magic, you also need dope bars or hooks to make that dope beat drive success for you in the music industry.

Stop riding on wack beats just because you can't afford dope stuffs or don't have access to the resources to make dope stuff.

4. LEARN ABOUT MUSIC PUBLISHING AND COPYRIGHTS

The music industry is revolved around publishing and copyright. A great deal of music income comes from publishing and copyright.

As an artist who wants to make it the industry you must get yourself educated on these aspects of music business.

Music publishing deals with how music royalties splits or how royalties or money is shared or paid, percentages and the activities and business aspects of music income generation and payment.

It also involves how to license your music, get or own copyright of your music, owning your music masters and all things publishing rights.

You can learn more about music publishing using Google.

5. GET A HOME STUDIO

Home studios are great tools to enhance your music career. By owning a home studio you can work on your music anytime inspiration comes.

You will have time to do several takes when recording and pick the best take for the production.

Having a home studio saves you the hustle of spending money on studio bookings.

You can invite dope beat producers and mixers to work on your track at the comfort of your home.

You will also create music at a rate you want instead of waiting to travel to a different studio elsewhere to record.

There so many benefits of a home studio. And to make it in the music industry having a home studio is a good music investment.

6. YOU NEED TO WRITE GOOD SONGS

Aside having the money to push your music career, and doing all the things that have been talked about above you will still need good songs with great lyrics content to thrive.

So spend time writing dope lyrics and developing good lyrical content for your songs.

It will make a great deal in achieving success in your music career and making it in the music industry.

7. YOU NEED TO BE TALENTED

The most obvious quality you need to possess to achieve a chunk of the music success is talent.

If you don't have talent people are not going to stream or buy your music.

Besides, talent is not enough. You need to put in much work to project and showcase your talent in a way that people will appreciate and recognize your talent. You need talent but you need to know how to optimize your talent and make it in the industry.

8. YOU MUST KNOW OR LEARN HOW TO MAKE MONEY FROM MUSIC

Money is one motivational factor or drive for doing music. Every artist want to blow up. But how do you make money in music.

You must learn or explore various way of making money from music: concert ticket sales, live shows, entertainment deals, royalties from music are some traditional ways of making money from music.

These sources of income from music are well known but it's hard to make it through these sources if you are not a well established artist.

But as an independent artist or upcoming artist you can explore other various ways of making money.

You can venture into music blogging, blogging about your life as a musician and blogging about your music and the music industry. You can monetize this through ads and selling merchandise on your blog or through YouTube vlogging.

You can also start a digital music distribution record label.

You can also go into selling merchandise out of your music brand. You can start a clothing brand or fashion boutique.

You can also do investment in real estate or other lucrative business ventures.

You must learn and practice all these ways of making money in music. Together the money generated through all these alternative means form a bigger revenue.

9. EXCEPTIONAL BRANDING, RELATABLE PERSONALITY, POSITIVE IMAGE PROJECTION AND BEING UNIQUE IN MUSIC STYLE AND LIFESTYLE.

To make it in the music industry you will need to brand yourself exceptionally and stand out of the lot of artists also trying to make it as well.

This include the personality you project in your videos, music cover arts, your lyrics, your style of dressing and way of living your life.

Don't live a fake life different from what you project in your music and social media posts and lyrics. You must be unique in your style, flow and delivery.

You must also have a relatable personality where people/fans can connect with you on level that is common.

Your fans admire you and wish to be or live like you. You must have a persona that they can resonate with.

Some artists are proud and very disconnected far from their fans. You shouldn't be that type of artist.

You must also project a positive image that will inspire your fans. Don't involve yourself in crime or drugs which will bring your image to disrepute and put you in a negative image in the media.

Besides some artists music brand resolves around being controversial and using crime and drugs especially smoking and gangster life to hype their music or that may be their natural lifestyle.

If living a bad life is part of your music brand, there is no problem with it. But if you're not known for that lifestyle don't indulge in it.

10. YOU MUST HAVE A TARGET AUDIENCE

You can't be doing music to please everybody. In this music industry filled with a lot music acts, you will need demographic segmentation in your music business.

You will have to target those sections of the public who like your type of music. And do music to their taste only.

By this way you will be able optimize the best methods in performing tasks in your music promotion and marketing efforts.

Know your audience and know what they want. Don't try to do what a different artist is doing. They may have high talent in executing their music styles which you may not have.

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How To Make It In The Music Industry As An Upcoming Artist or Independent Artist

1. You need to do serious and consistent marketing for your music.

2.You must do music videos.

3. You need dope beats and dope music producers.

4. Learn about music publishing and copyrights.

5. Get a home studio.

6. You need to write good songs.

7. You need to be talented.

8. You must know or learn how to make money from music.

9. Exceptional branding, relatable personality, positive image projection, being unique in music style and lifestyle.

10. You must have a target audience.