I was just checking out an act that I have worked with. A good band but they have a horrible manager that thinks everything should be cheated or those big companies would solve a problem. For a beginner or a person outside the business, it looks really good for them. But since we live in the digital age for me is easy to see how the manager is trying to cheat on everything.

You can easily see how they released a single on a major label. You can also see how the major label has pumped up the numbers on Spotify but forgotten all other numbers. Then they were dumped by the major label and after that, you can see the number drop to some real figures.

Then they probably realized that without live shows nothing really go forward. So now they have got on to a booking agency. The problem here is that the agency is famous for not getting you any gigs. The manager is more or less trying all the wrong things in the battle to do nothing.

The sad part the manager has already sabotaged their chances to go abroad by acting like a jerk to several showcase festivals. At the same time, the manager has not the network to get any success in that environment since they are just looking for the next opportunity to look cool, not to get things done.

Then in the bio, you can easily read the cool things they did is things you easy can buy. Not cheap but still it’s just a price tag to it nothing that you are good.

In the end, I see a lot of this right now. Things that are bought or fake and just desperation to look to something when in reality you just have to bootstrap your self and get on with the real thing. In this case, it’s sad, the mange is wasting the artist time and when they get that it will be too late and their opportunity is gone.

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