{"id":70284,"date":"2018-07-31T18:56:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T00:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=70284"},"modified":"2020-08-06T08:09:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T08:09:19","slug":"musiccityghost-music-business-abcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/31\/musiccityghost-music-business-abcs\/","title":{"rendered":"MusicCityGhost:\u00a0 Music Business ABC&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"color: #333333; text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-70285\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/mcg-talent-not-required.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mcg-talent-not-required.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mcg-talent-not-required-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mcg-talent-not-required-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mcg-talent-not-required-768x430.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>MusicCityGhost: Music Business ABC&#8217;s<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How many singers watch the various awards shows and feel in their mind that they are every bit as good as those award winners? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Did you ever stop to wonder on a worldwide scale how many singers watch the various awards shows and feel in their mind that they are every bit as good as those award winners? \u00a099% of those dreamers are just that, dreamers living in la-la land. \u00a0I recently talked to a singer who has been singing for 9 years. \u00a0I asked him what PRO (Performing Rights Organization) he was a member of. \u00a0He said, &#8220;I guess none, I don&#8217;t even know what a PRO is.&#8221; \u00a0I told him that&#8217;s ok and proceeded to ask him a few more questions just to see how much he knew and didn&#8217;t know about the ABC&#8217;s of the Music Business. \u00a0I next asked him if he was a member of AFTRA (The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) \u00a0and of course, once again his reply was he didn&#8217;t know what AFTRA is. \u00a0My final question for him as if he had a mechanical license for the cover tunes he had on his CD that he was selling off the bandstand. \u00a0I got the same answer. \u00a0He had no clue of what a mechanical license was and had never even heard of such a thing. \u00a0If you are in the Music Business and don&#8217;t know your ABC&#8217;s how in the world can you proceed to the next level? \u00a0How can you compete against the millions of others in your field if they have the knowledge and you don&#8217;t? \u00a0I am not saying every singer in the world needs to enroll in a Music Business college course but if you plan on staying in a highly specialized field of employment at least learn your ABCs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; The Music City Ghost<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MusicCityGhost: Music Business ABC&#8217;s How many singers watch the various awards shows and feel in their mind that they are every bit as good as those award winners? Did you ever stop to wonder on a worldwide scale how many singers watch the various awards shows and feel in their mind that they are every bit as good as those award winners? \u00a099% of those dreamers are just that, dreamers living in la-la land. \u00a0I recently talked to a singer who has been singing for 9 years. \u00a0I asked him<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/31\/musiccityghost-music-business-abcs\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73869,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70284\/revisions\/73869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}