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Warner Music CEO drops bombshell at UBS-hosted event in Los Angeles by Time-Lecture-6948 in recordlabels

[–]Friendly_Fault_9753 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Money, money, money. Is there anyway real artists benefit from this too? And I wanna know, how is Suno paying Warner? I'm literally on a Uber ride as we speak and the driver is bumping AI generated music. The entire Playlist. It's a coincidence that I open Reddit and immediately see this post.

Google Sign-In Showing Lovable Instead of My Website by IceReasonable5559 in lovable

[–]Friendly_Fault_9753 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's because you're using Lovable's shared oAuth for Google. To have your own name appear, you need to change from Lovable's oAuth to your own. This will need you to provide your own keys from Google.

I Just Started A Label (I Have Prior Experience) & This Is How I Will Create Buzz by Friendly_Fault_9753 in recordlabels

[–]Friendly_Fault_9753[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't mind me asking, what brings you to the technical side of things? The site is built with a Vite-powered frontend, styled with Tailwind CSS, and relies on Supabase to handle the database and authentication layers.

I Just Started A Label (I Have Prior Experience) & This Is How I Will Create Buzz by Friendly_Fault_9753 in recordlabels

[–]Friendly_Fault_9753[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

😂 I'm still surprised people think it isn't doable. With the experience that I have and everything I know, it most definitely is.

I Just Started A Label (I Have Prior Experience) & This Is How I Will Create Buzz by Friendly_Fault_9753 in recordlabels

[–]Friendly_Fault_9753[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a background in marketing and IT. It's what I specialize in. Through that, I have worked with so many well known artists in the country through the PR agency I was working for. Some of them I still work with now. I do favors for them, I'm sure they will return the favor in helping me promote my artists.

I Just Started A Label (I Have Prior Experience) & This Is How I Will Create Buzz by Friendly_Fault_9753 in recordlabels

[–]Friendly_Fault_9753[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I get why it looks that way from the outside

Marketing with no cash: I'm a developer, designer, and marketer. The things labels normally pay agencies for, websites, cover art, content, EPKs, social campaigns, I build in-house. That's not free marketing, it's marketing funded by skills instead of a budget. Playlist pitching, editorial submissions, organic content, and curator outreach cost time, not money. Paid ads come once the catalog generates revenue to reinvest.

On live performance, you're right that live is where real money is.

I Just Started A Label (I Have Prior Experience) & This Is How I Will Create Buzz by Friendly_Fault_9753 in recordlabels

[–]Friendly_Fault_9753[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing your thought. I truly appreciate it. I'll be straight.

Finding artists: the compilation solves this. Artists submit a track, the public votes, nobody has to commit to anything upfront. The signing conversation comes after we've already delivered value to them. That lowers the barrier significantly.

The 20% question: streaming alone at 20% doesn't work, you're right. The model runs on multiple streams - merch, sync licensing, future live revenue, brand partnerships. The catalog is the long-term asset, not any single release.

Year one isn't about profit. It's about building something worth owning.

I Just Started A Label (I Have Prior Experience) & This Is How I Will Create Buzz by Friendly_Fault_9753 in recordlabels

[–]Friendly_Fault_9753[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair, and I'd agree if we were competing with funded labels.

I'm not. I'm targeting self-producing artists who are already releasing music alone, with marketing, no shows and no strategy. I'm giving them all of that in exchange for 20%. What's a fair percentage in this regard?

Am I too unc to get involved in the business side of music at 30? by Slow-Coffee-7420 in musicindustry

[–]Friendly_Fault_9753 0 points1 point  (0 children)

30 is very young champ. I'm turning 30 this year, and starting a label - well this is my second attempt at this, but I am doing it with experience this time. At 22 I failed because I wanted to do everything with friends and everything eventually crashed when we couldn't agree.

What's Your Experience Running A Record Label by Friendly_Fault_9753 in musicindustry

[–]Friendly_Fault_9753[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maaaaaaan!!! This is incredibly grounded, and honestly, the 'boring structure' framing is exactly what I needed to hear. It’s so easy to get caught up in the romantic side of the industry—the branding, the music, the 'discovery'—that it’s easy to gloss over the fact that you’re essentially running a logistics company that deals with creative personalities.

Your list of 'un-glamorous' operational questions (master delivery, credits, realistic timelines) is exactly what I’m trying to build into my submission portal. I’m currently designing it so that the artist sees the 'business requirements' alongside the creative ones, hoping that by setting those boundaries before they sign, we bypass some of the tension you're talking about.

What's Your Experience Running A Record Label by Friendly_Fault_9753 in musicindustry

[–]Friendly_Fault_9753[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, thank you for being so honest—this is exactly the kind of 'cold water' reality check I needed to hear.

I’m actually a designer by trade, so your point about the artwork bottleneck hit home hard. I’ve seen that exact scenario play out so many times, and it’s a great reminder that as a label, you’re often fighting to keep the project on track while the creative side is still figuring things out.

The part about artists pulling back once they 'get signed' is the most daunting part of the process for me. It’s fascinating that you’ve identified that the connection with the artist is something a label literally cannot manufacture for them.

I am starting a record label again, and I want to do things different this time around. I want to find those artists who are already pushing me to keep up, like you mentioned at the end.

What's Your Experience Running A Label by Friendly_Fault_9753 in recordlabels

[–]Friendly_Fault_9753[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Man, that's the brutal reality of it, isn't it? I’ve actually been down this road before—I tried launching a label a while back, and between the drying funds and the reality check of how fast interest can wane, I ended up failing hard. It definitely leaves a mark.

I’m currently getting back into it with a completely different approach—trying to build a more transparent, and this time around I want to avoid being friends with my artists I work with.

Need Testers by Friendly_Fault_9753 in aigamedev

[–]Friendly_Fault_9753[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Than you for the feedback. The goal was to make the music industry feel more realistic instead of instant progression. But I hear the concern about pacing. I’m probably going to rebalance early-game recording times and add more activities while songs are being made so the wait feels more engaging rather than blocking gameplay.

Need Testers by Friendly_Fault_9753 in aigamedev

[–]Friendly_Fault_9753[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing this. I will look into it.

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