posted 12-03-2000 11:46 AM            

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Can I hear my music in PromoLibrary?

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YES!

First, it must be a Commercially Acceptable product for the programmers to use it!

Second, you have to be intelligent enough to pay attention! Not all Broadcasters are PromoLibrary subscribers, nor programmed by syndicators who are! Therefore, unless you're tuned in to a "remote" (a computer & transmitter station), a station programmed by consultant cum syndicator, a network feed programmed the same way, one of the many cable/satellite music channels, or just listening to the background music in stores, shopping malls, hotel/business lobbies, or even your local chain beanery, you're NOT going to hear your song breaking up the world at each and every dawning!

The primary purpose of PromoLibraries is to prove or dis-prove a product's commercial acceptability - it's ability to log viable commercial radio airplay - as the one and only market indicator to justify the expense of producing and distributing an album! Period.

Once in a great while (we just had our first in eight years of PromoLibrary use) something will raise enough hell to get some hard core offers. But considering the number of songs in the many PromoLibraries (well into the millions of titles and versions), one Johnny Jump Up in eight years and at least that many thousand songs with our tag, is about average! So don't think you're going to be given that non-existent 'free' million dollars that's supposed to be floating around somewhere in the mysteries of this industry, just because you prove you have a commercially acceptable product via PromoLibrary.

There are only three songs that have sold any appreciable copies from PromoLibrary use. The first was WHITNEY HOUSTON's I Will Always Love You - the second was LEANN RIMES' Blue - and the third was ELTON JOHN's Candle In The Wind. A damned rare event when you count up the numbers, and the last one took a dead Princess in the process.

So, don't do an upload and order the Cadillac unless you can afford both without the first being a sure-fire for the second.

However, if you pay attention to the above music user's list, you just might hear your song! Bob Edgar, Bruce Gibson and I heard Chylon singing Danny Boy while day-drinking in one of the bars at the local Hilton. Chris Chamblee heard Chylon singing As All The Angels Know in a theatre. So it's there, you just have to have the groove and then listen.

posted 12-04-2000 01:27 PM            

What is generally ALSO a part of this question is Can I monitor my music or How can I monitor my music? The information also applies to those who want to hear their song and where it is playing on the radio.

Yes you can hear your music. Some of the ways include:

Get a satellite dish and flip through ALL the music channels 24 hours a day.

Make sure that have enough receivers for every channel that you want to monitor. Of course, you probably won't be able to do much of anything else include going to the bathroom because sure enough, you'll miss your song when you do

Then too you might have to spend some money to subscribe to the premium channels for those music feeds (much like an HBO subscription).

You'll also have to be in EVERY place around the world that pipes in music just in case you can't get a subscription to the channel that MIGHT be playing your music on your monitoring system. I suppose you'd have to learn some special skills too like bi-locating (you know - being in 2 places at one time).

Of course, you can also be on the telephone, on hold, waiting to hear if the music that is playing while you're waiting is your song. What you'll have to do is call and make sure that you tell the operator that you want to remain on hold just in case their feed plays your song while you¡¦re waiting. You'll also have to make sure that when you are on hold, the music feed IS a satellite feed. Some businesses use satellite feeds and some don't. So be prepared to make lots of phone calls just to find out. You might want to become a peeping tom on ALL the calls for EVERYONE who is on hold in order to make sure that you don't miss your song while they are waiting on hold.

You can also spend the millions of dollars and pay all the high salaries to set up your own tracking system for the millions of songs playing around the world every day. You will have to get all the equipment necessary to do that and of course you will either have to learn all the programming required to do the job or get ¡§lucky¡¨ and hope the people who do know how to do the programming will do it for "free".

Make sure that you tell EVERYONE you know to do the same things and of course they don't have anything better to do so they will be glad to do it. That way you'll have ALL the bases covered. And of course, you'll all need to be mind readers so that you'll just "know" when and where your song is playing because you're too busy doing listening and monitoring yourself.

posted 01-03-2001 08:02 PM            

"ha!"