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Details are linked below - read all 30+ articles!  "Indie" product can't log main line radio airplay or get main line sales distribution. VMG offers both. And we're licensed, manufactured, promoted and distributed world wide! Let's start at the BOTTOM, and take a cold hard look at the BOTTOM LINE: COLD, HARD, INDUSTRY FACT NUMBER ONE: If you're not on a Major Record Label you're not going to log much, if any Main Line Radio Airplay because Main Line Radio won't play 'indies'! Even those few 'indies' with 'name' Artists (who usually own their own label) can't log Main Line Radio Airplay. Period. VMG World Wide is a MAJOR LABEL! We just do things differently than the others. COLD, HARD, INDUSTRY FACT NUMBER TWO: If you're not on a Distributed Record Label you're not going to sell many, if any copies to Main Line Record Outlets because Main Line Record Outlets won't buy 'indies'! Even those few 'indies' with 'name' Artists (who usually own their own label) can't get Main Line Record Outlets to handle their product. Period. VMG World Wide is a MAJOR LABEL! We just do things differently than the others. COLD, HARD, INDUSTRY FACT NUMBER THREE: The average quantity record-sell for that ONE (1) out of EIGHT (8) records that does sell, is 50,000 copies! Did you get that? "IF" a record generates any sales at all, the Industry AVERAGE is 50,000 copies! And at VMG, a domestic album of TEN (10) songs would pay an ExP/Artist/Songwriter mechanical earnings of EIGHT POINT SIX CENTS ($.086) PER SONG PER COPY SOLD, for a figure of ONE HUNDRED SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($107,500.00) (USC)! A Gold Album would pay ONE MILLION SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,075,000.00) (USC) and VMG's contracts DO NOT HAVE ANY CHARGE-BACK! We told you VMG does things differently than the other Major Labels. COLD, HARD, INDUSTRY FACT NUMBER FOUR: The vast majority of the money earned by a Recording Artist is from Concert/Live Performances! All records, whether "hits" or not, eventually become Audio Business Cards. Some sooner than others! Even so, without a good-playing or good-selling record, there isn't going to be any Concert or Live Performances! Especially HIGH PAYING ones. COLD, HARD, INDUSTRY FACT NUMBER FIVE: Consider the fact that full Albums cost one hell of a lot of money! BEFORE anyone (other than a complete Industry Idiot) blows that kind of money, they Market Test the product - Artist - Song - Production and all. They take ONE SONG and find out if it will log viable commercial Radio Airplay! If it does, they move to the next step. If it doesn't, they re-group and test another song! They still have MONEY left to do that because they didn't blow it all on an unproven product. COLD, HARD, INDUSTRY FACT NUMBER SIX: There are TWO ways to Market Test a song, PromoLibraries, that came on-line in 1992 and have been used by all the Major Labels ever since! The REAL Shakers and Movers in this Industry use PromoLibraries, and most 'indies' don't even know they exist. VMG damned sure does! Again, we told you VMG does things differently than other Major Labels. COLD, HARD, INDUSTRY FACT NUMBER SEVEN: It's a simple fact of life that any Artist who isn't logging viable commercial Radio Airplay isn't going to get paid very much for bookings if they can book at all! And any Artist that is stuck in a going-no-where 'contract', regardless of the Label needs to get their own act in gear and force the Label to either deliver or cut them loose so they can proceed with their career! COLD, HARD, INDUSTRY FACT NUMBER EIGHT: A good-playing record can do that in damned short order! Most Artists don't know that regardless of any contract provisions whatsoever, the Artist still has the right to promote themselves, and they can use their records REGARDLESS OF THE LABEL to do that! They just can't manufacture those records for sale, but they can damned sure take any other measures - specifically but not limited to: RADIO AIRPLAY in those self-promotion endeavors. Now that you have a production that is logging viable commercial Radio Airplay, you need to move to the next step - a full album with world wide promotion, distribution and licensing. If any Artist gets a good-playing song, even a TurnTable Hit, all the concert venue promoters with sufficient budget are going to come out of the wood work to book them! And any Artist, established, Legend, or new kid on the block, that gets a good-playing song, is going to get a lot more booking offers and a lot better money! Simple as that. How Do We Do That? In short, "What is the next step?" Depends on your Industry Status. So let's start with a NEW-COMER: whether you've made your own Album, EP, Single, CD, Cassette, or otherwise, and regardless of the Field of Music. Your best, and lowest cost, first effort is to UPLOAD your most commercial song to the PromoLibraries. Our current information indicates they reach some 8,000 DOWNLOAD subscribers around the world, mainly Radio Broadcasters but including Program Syndicators, Background Music Marketers, etcetera. However, if you're a full time working band, or trying to be, then your best effort is to get your most commercial song(s) into a VMG World Wide release. Full details about that are given below. And YES! VMG is interested in having you on our label. Check our site and our contract, then contact us direct. Established Artist/INDUSTRY LEGEND: whether or not you've been shelved, dropped, or anything else if you intend to continue working for TOP DOLLAR, then you should consider getting either your most signature song, or something else you like better, into a VMG World Wide release. And YES! VMG is interested in having you on our label. Check our site and our contract, then contact us at your leisure. VMG World Wide family of labels support all Fields of Music: Adult Contemporary, Country, Rock, Jazz, Urban, R&B, Hip Hop, Dance, Blue Grass, Dixie Land, Folk, Ethnic Language, and Gospel in all its Fields too. VMG World Wide is open to all legitimate Executive Producers, Artist Managers and Labels and all Fields of Music. Only RIAA Broadcast Standard CDRs, Red or Orange Book Masters are acceptable. NO EXCEPTIONS! Rules for inclusion of any product in any release of VMG World Wide are normal Industry Standards. Coverage includes all relevant (U.S. domestic average is 3,000-Plus for all Fields of Main Line music) broadcasters, program producers, program consultants, program syndicators and music users currently listed as such. Neither VMG nor any assign thereof can guarantee sure and certain success or airplay of any release based on the groove alone. Four (4) out of five (5) records released, regardless of the label, do not log any airplay at all. And seven (7) out of eight (8) albums released do not sell any commercial copies at all! However, with proper financial support, any song can be bought into Main Line broadcast, just like any other commercial. More about that at Where The Money Really Is In Music. Upon any VMG release achieving any recognized Music Industry Chart, VMG World Wide will present to client a then-current VANDOR MUSIC GROUP Executive Producers Record Release Agreement with respect to follow-up album product. Client is under no obligation to accept or enter into said Agreement, and may contract with and/or release on any other label at any time. That's right, AGAIN! You can sign with anyone you want, any time you want. Get a "HIT", Get a CONTRACT! GUARANTEED! Does not embind the MASTER beyond the selling life of the work. All MASTERS are and remain the property of ExP, and are returned to ExP as soon as possible. Once released, VMG will attempt to keep the work on the air and selling as long as possible. VMG World Wide reserves the right to refuse any submission for any reason. Upon said refusal, VMG World Wide will return said submission with fee in-full as immediate thereafter as feasible. Recorded Music has its rules. Some technical, some ethical. And VMG will not knowingly be in violation of either, even by association. The full text of the current VMG Executive Producer's Record Release Agreement - that VMG will present as stated above in Paragraph 5., above, - is available for your review at ExP. You'll probably have to save the file and print it out, about 25-30 pages depending on how you have your printer set up. You may contact me direct at 505 247 4843. If I'm not available, leave a message – REPEAT THE PHONE NUMBER TWICE - and I'll get back. Or, contact any of the authorized VANDOR MUSIC GROUP Representatives below. Your Obedient Servant, General Bobby Farrell Talk to us: VMG World Wide.  A casual shot of some of our past and current credits, including Patsy Cline, Marty Robbins, Elvis Presley, Linda Ronstadt and a few others.
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