Song Central Q&A
How does this site help me become better ‘’known’’ as a songwriter?
Similar to a painter. How does an unknown artist become better “known” as an artist? By painting quality work and finding ways to showcase and expose their creativity as often (and for as long as possible) to the widest audience. Art can be easily showcased at community events, restaurants, public places and, eventually, commercial art exhibitions as it is visual and, unlike songs and music, does not require a compatible sound media player.
Also, if material from a songwriter/composer on Song Central is selected by an industry user, Song Central will award that songwriter/composer with a (‘’crotchet”) . Similar to a * rating, crotchets are visible to browsers and thus help build profiles for songwriter/composers on Song Central.
Songcentrals searching tools enable industry users to search for songs by criteria that includes genre, sub-genres, song subject or theme etc and they are also able to search by song writer (you).
Another way to increase your profile is by doing well in established songwriting competitions. Songs that achieve results in songwriting competitions get tagged with a P (for professionally recognized material) that is reflected in your songs tags on Song Central, thus increasing the status of your profile.
Remember Songcentral's approach is to let the songs do the "walking and talking." We believe the cream "rises to the top”, it just has to be in the bottle….
Won’t industry users just be interested in the professional songs only?
Our feed back from industry users is ‘two fold’ … yes, they like to know they are able to view the professional material, however, they recognize that new talent exists elsewhere that hasn’t yet surfaced. In the past, accessing of this source of talent and material has been a major problem. Song Central now provides a bridge between this source of unknown material & talent and people in the business of using it and they are keen to cross that bridge.
So, whilst they might keep an eye on professional stuff, they are always on the look out for new talent and material that has potential to be developed.
Why would industry users want to use Song Central when they have their own suppliers for new material?
Song Central increases and widens their options for sourcing new material. It gives them access to a new source of material and talent not previously possible and is a service that can be easily incorporated with existing strategies for sourcing new material.
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