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I’m 20 years in this business, made around 100 records and collabs with well known DJs. You need someone to push you, if no one sees in you something you will stuck forever in phase 2. This market is so saturated that you have no chance to become a headliner on festivals. There are so many talented artists out there but no one cares. I had luck to be there at the right time and at the right moment. I have friends that are well known Music managers, and I know that there is a huge amount of money in the background of any successful artist. These are brands like you said. This is pure Marketing and investing for the major labels. It’s like everything on the internet, no one is telling you the full truth about the music industry. Money makes an artist successful and not the talent. At the end of the day everyone wants to sell you dreams. Your dream is their income streams.

thank you for the reality check

I would say it took me roughly 10 years to be happy with my music... From sound design, to composition to mixing and mastering.

🙏 i might definitely need this thanks

This is the exact video I need right now

Awesome video! Thanks for the breakdown of these stages.

Great roadmap and probably the most motivating video I’ve watched on this journey

Having been a touring musician for years (playing real instruments); I transitioned to electronic music in 20222 and managed to amass a couple million streams and a spot with a big label. I've also seen teenagers get millions of streams within a year or so of launching their projects so I would say that these timelines /phases are more academic ideas than a reality. There are tons of scenes phonk, krushklub, brazilian funk where you can just start a project and hit the ground running (with little to no technical experience) and start seeing some numbers.

Great video dude

The city where I went to college there was a DJ duo who was already signed to big labels I remember one of their tracks on armada back in the day. They were opening main stage at festivals then just like that they quit. Caught one of their last shows met one of the guys dads in the crowd and he said they just wanted to move on to other things. They accomplished everything they wanted but didn’t want a long career. In contrast the popular local DJ still can’t catch a break, he had residencies at some pretty big clubs. He’s friends with some big names, really talented producer. Tried to re brand himself after big room/electro house wasn’t as popular to a trap persona but should have followed trends a little better because trap was on its way out and tech house was on its way in. He moved to LA but it was a different crowd so he moved to the bay area where there were more places booking bass music acts

Great video Justin but let's be honest there's no guarantee at all. Music business is the most unpredictable. You can work pretty hard doing everything right but still stuck in phase 2 with no success. Is it worth it?

Every big artist you named has his own unique signature sound. Maybe it makes more sense to find it before branding, making content and all that stuff? The industry is overcrowded and I guess it's no valuable if you do some typical standard tunes in any genre. Your thoughts?

seems bang on this

I think I'll always be in some way, in phase 1 since I'm always learning about music, new things I can do, other genres, etc. I'm not married to any one genre, but I do want my music featured in rhythm games. The festivals, parties, DJing, that's kinda a lesser interest for me, getting signed is a case of being picky, so I know my path is going to be unusual and harder. The depressing part is not having any connections or not being impressive enough that your former connections remember you. I'm actively joining discord servers of other artists and keeping an eye out for music contests, trying to get out there, but it's pretty hard to connect with other people.

I don’t know if I’m in phase 2 or 1 but I finished my first single and released it with a good label , but that was almost less than a year after I started producing note that I’m a vocalist and guitarist for 15 years , now I’m still learning even more than before haven’t released a song in 9 months cause I feel that I need to learn more specially my mixes doesn’t sound like great records I have finished 3 songs but always I keep changing and not confident enough to release even more than the time I started I was lucky enough to be booked for a really big festival in my country next October, But still have the feeling of phase one What should I do ?

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Anyone else here also start producing before djing? I did and I’m not sure how to start my brand without being a dj first

Thank you for this reality check Justin. Do you have any tips for us fathers of young children (2 and 5 in my case) that have very little time or energy?

I'm in the first phase, but I release music independently