Record Labels hire experts to craft recording contracts in a way that prompt signing artists to give away their music ownership rights forever. It was also discovered that for every $1000 made after record sales, an artist who signed for a major label deal gained as small as $23.40.

Recording contract: Please Don’t Just Sign, Be Careful

It’s not a rumor, it’s a fact that an enormous number of musicians are doomed due to lack of knowledge. Record companies don’t play fair, these huge music firms retain people’s ideas through a recording contract.

“Whatever ideas you have in your head are not yours they belong to Warner Brothers” – that was MO Ostin telling the late Pop star, Prince, who tried to part ways with the record label after their relationship went beyond diplomacy.

Technically, these contracts are created to confirm a complete transfer of ownership of the master recordings or ideas from the artist to the label. Moreover, the baddest part, the record company gain more c-notes than the content creator. The signing phase is the phase where an uncountable numbe… Continue Reading (10 minute read)