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TAKE ME OVER (WORK MY FREAK ON YOU)- Manufactured Superstars... (radio mix)

gregg75

gregg75

Somebody finally put the radio mix up on YouTube (5 days ago). It has to be
one of the best new songs I've head in the past two weeks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS4s-eR7UsU

Now this is just good old fashioned Dance (nothing quasi about it). A little nice
but naughty at the same time. Enjoy/promote............. when it gets 900,000
HITS you can be Proud that you were #75!
 
So they have now taken this YouTube video down.
Which brings up a good point........

Which is better for you and your record label?
some free promotion on YouTube
or no promotion at all

good luck trying to market your song without any marketing
 
Gregg:

If commercial radio in the USA doesn't put this single into the rotation...then THEY ARE THAT DUMB!

The club mix is already out since June..I should have put this on my platter before July 4th :(
 
gregg75 said:
So they have now taken this YouTube video down.
Which brings up a good point........

Which is better for you and your record label?
some free promotion on YouTube
or no promotion at all

good luck trying to market your song without any marketing
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I couldn't agree more.Although,usually dance labels are good with promoting via sites like YouTube.This is a battle I have had with many new freestyle artists have been persuaded that if there is no YouTube mp4 video then more people will buy their song.The opposite is true. No one is buying their music and much worse no one has even heard of their music.
 
I can see the two sides.

You want to promote your track but with programs out there that "rip" the audio of the YouTube videos to mp3, you don't want people to "steal" it either. But to take down the track also defeats the purpose because by "cutting one's nose to spite the face", you lose out on a potential consumer that may like the track that much, he/she wants to buy it.

What I think, IMHO, these record labels should do is PUT UP THE TRACK on YouTube, but perhaps somewhere within the video, DISTORT the sound (either drop the audio quality at a point, intersperse drops of 0db, whatever. Then promote the place where the track can be purchased. So as long as the artists/producers are in agreement about this that would be the win-win.
 
Some just put up 2 1/2 minutes of their track instead of the entire song. At least
then they do have something on YouTube for the masses.
 
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