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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

A Better Chance in Europe

I must say that my distributor, CD Baby has done a great job pushing my music to the thirsty ears in and out side of the United States. My only question is why do the people over seas gives the Independent artists a fair listen and here in America, only the artist who sounds like some one else or should I say has corporate influence are the artists who are brought forth to public radio and or written about in magazines. I can say it has become better through out the years, but Europe is where the buck is for the little guy with no command backing. Now let’s not think that if you have a crappy band you will be loved and adored. I’m just saying you stand a better chance of being heard. An example comes to mind when I was told that a few of my tracks were played on Lakeland radio, 100.1 in the UK.
  How many times this may have occurred is left to chance but I do know that CD Baby placed me into the CBS owned Last FM music group found in the UK and ,Last FM lent my works to Lakeland radio. As a whole, I was given that chance to be liked by others. This is what I call a fair audition to the world. http://lakelandradio.co.uk/artist/larry+potillo/
The United States is now down playing the CD technology for the sake of the digital MP3 format, while Sales of CD’s over seas are still holding its own. In spite of this. CD Baby has reached out to companies over seas who may be up for the challenge of CD sales. I fell under the impression that I might end up eating the remainder of physical CD’s in my procession. And later on found out that CD Baby reached out to a company named “In and Out Records” in Germany  to help push the sales of my tracks. http://www.inandout.at/?ff_sku=CD:larrypotillo2-C10&new_waers=EUR&ff_direct=x  America has one sure shot called Amazon.com who will sell your CD and or MP3 downloads. Branching out from this is a company named Spotify, a Swedish company that allows the listeners to create play lists of music that is played around the world. What’s good about this company? If you’re lucky to get your music distributed through that system, you get paid. The more people who listen, the better off you are. Again all of this is due to who else? CD Baby.