Move over Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, EMI and Sony Music Entertainment. If you are making it tough for indie artists to get exposure in the charts, there’s a new sandbox for them to play in.
Two new charts will launch this month geared toward rising artists affiliated with indie labels. Indie labels in England already have their own charts. The Official Charts Company and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) are breaking further ground by adding Singles Breakers and Albums Breakers charts to make the public more aware of new artists. This coming Monday, indie artists whose singles and albums haven’t appeared in the national charts now have their own sandbox: the Official Independent Breakers Charts. As long as your label has a 50%+ non-major record company ownership, bring on your downloads and CD’s-they both count!
Even acts not signed to an indie label have a new online opportunity to increase their visibility (and profitability!) more than ever before as well as to attract major deals, if they’re so inclined. The charts will quantify indies’ success, thereby enabling them to use these measurements to promote themselves even further.
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July 2nd, 2009 at 9:27 pm
That’s very cool about the charts…speaking of which: I dug Leslie Pearl’s hit on RCA called “If The Love Fits.” Great song. Someone told me that you actually produced her first single. Is that true?
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Quite correct, Ed. I produced her first single on the London label called “Flying High With You.” We recorded it in the studio at Radio City Music Hall. Leslie is a tremendous songwriter. She has written a lot of jingles and is great at musically selling an idea in 30 or 60 seconds. A single really gave her the extra time to work a song idea through which was great to hear her do.