Before kicking off your career, you still have to learn a few basic things about the music industry itself. Learning how record companies work will help you understand why they fail, and this again will then allow developing a strategy that may help you to make it on your own.

ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT NO MATTER IF YOU WILL WANT TO RESPECT THE RULES OR IF YOU INTEND BREAKING THEM, IT MAY BE A GOOD IDEA TO AT LEAST KNOW THEM BEFORE GETTING STARTED.

So now it’s time to learn some more details about the industry and about those enigmatic record companies themselves. And even if we’ll just scratch on the surface and if we’ll only review the basics, then this will already be enough to get you on the right track. Here are a few important questions that will have to be answered: