Deciding on easy methods to divide songwriting percentages can be tricky at occasions. You’ll get a recording contract if you walk right into a label and show them the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet report exhibiting that you’ve had 2,000 ringtone downloads from iTunes within the last 3 months, and 5,000 album gross sales from online retailers within the last three months.

On the face of it, this seems a wonderfully legitimate strategy – for those who take a girl who seems to be type of like Shania Twain, give her an album of songs that sound just-like, a similarly designed album cowl, and spend the same sum of money selling her, then surely this new album may also achieve success.

In truth, whereas we will continue our widespread Artist and Songwriter Development Workshop held at Phrase Leisure in Nashville, and our other critiques and consults we have been doing for years, …