What Labels ACTUALLY Want (But Won't Tell You)

If you struggle to get a response or feedback from record labels, Derek and Ed from LabelRadar have some insider tips that have helped thousands of bedroom producers get signed, and can help you too.
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[@EDMTips]

I hope you guys enjoy this as much as I did! Let me know who else you'd like me to interview in the comments :) 👇 ❓If you're missing a label on LabelRadar, please let Ed know, he'll make sure to hunt them down for you!

[@Bl4ckbunnymusic]

IF you are able to, could you be able to interview some very succesful edm producer and ask for example, their secrets that they do in their songs and like how is it affecting their life? Also they could give a tip for any upcoming producers who want make their music heard.

[@Andrea.Zechmeister]

yes is true Label Radar is very good, same by remix contest / and he talk true only 20 sec from your best style to label not the Full track/ I have that foult make it and one big artist stole after my Track

[@JuiceShop_official]

Thanks for the very interesting video. Would be great to get the label Mau5trap on the platform. Any chance?

[@ast4127]

?? They stole your track?? @@Andrea.Zechmeister

[@Tom40Rocks]

Yeah, go for the top - why not UMG, WB, and Sony directly on it feels a bit over the top but f*** it :)

[@seanconleyy]

Man this channel and community is fricken awesome. Thanks for keeping all of us motivated and leaving the impact that you do on new artists.

[@EDMTips]

Thank you so much, Sean, I really appreciate the kind words of support! I am also proud of the community for putting in those hours, supporting each other and achieving their goals! 🙏🏻

[@doctordeejay8630]

Most of the labels on Label Radar ask for upfront money in order to release your track, which proves that everything it's business, including music industry, you guys should especify which labels do this so we can select who we are sending the submissions to!😊

[@synthzizer3324]

Be good to get a response to your question

[@Tranceformer]

Would disagree. There are labels on and also off label radar that do ask some charges. We certainly do not and I disagree asking artist to pay to release their track. That has nothing to do with how label radar operates but down to individual labels decisions. Very good platform and getting better all the time.

[@doctordeejay8630]

@@Tranceformer hi there! With all due respect... I said most of them, not all of them!! I didn't say it was a bad platform either, i like the platform a lot!!! I ask for a tool or something that lets us know which labels charge for realeasing your track!! It would be nice to know which label you are as well if you don't mind please, would be very handy! Thanks by advanced! 😁

[@Kyoshi2012]

They should be banned for it

[@ItsGrantM]

I am a Hypersonic Missile and generally speaking I would say these are good tips.

[@EDMTips]

Thanks, I am glad you found them helpful 🙌🏻

[@MrMattmoffett]

As a space plane I concur

[@IntoleranceRecords]

I am a record label and generally speaking I would say these are good tips.

[@EDMTips]

Thanks for the input, really appreciate it 🙂🙌🏻

[@darrenrobinson8317]

Labelrader was a godsend for me, I've had 1 track released recently and 2 more are being released soon, if it weren't for these guys I'd be still sending stuff out there getting no response. Thank you 🙏🏻.

[@EDMTips]

Stoked ot hear that, Darren! I love hearing stories like this :)

[@darrenrobinson8317]

Thanks Will, 👍🏼, I'm over the moon with it at the moment, I know I'm a small spec in the music universe but it's a big achievement for an old Dude like me🤣. Keep up the good work brother 🤜🏼.

[@IwanOkti]

Great videos SIr. this 1 very helpfull.🙏

[@EDMTips]

Glad to hear that! Stoked you found it helpful 🙂🙌🏻

[@Vitamindevo]

Loved this interview! I listened to it while also playing a spotify playlist in the background and it popped 10x harder! Had some synthwave in the background and I felt like I was watching a documentary about how Label Radar was the catalyst to a whole new genre of music being discovered. :)

[@EDMTips]

Cheers, glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🙂

[@djb3488]

Great content. I think this is highly valuable to your audience. I have a question, the music we make contains samples, that’s what we’re into and that’s what we like doing, however this does pose issues. Do you have any advice for producers making music like this? For example take LF systems ’afraid to feel’ hit last year - originally was a massive sample - are labels going to be interested in this type of thing off the bat or does it present too many issues /costs that put labels off?…do they need to see support from djs first before signing? If the answer is yes then the next question to follow on from this video surely is ‘what’s the best way to get your music to active high profile djs??(which let’s face it is really not that easy nowadays) love to know your opinion on this topic

[@serzazach1335]

These guys are so down to earth and know what they are on about. You need people like this out there😊

[@EDMTips]

Couldn't agree more! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🙏🏻

[@jandemeyere4347]

A lot of labels wa t to sign you but then they want you to pay for promotions. I had 8 labels wanted to sign on labelradar or with the same strange formula of marketing.

[@EDMTips]

That is a phenomenon that seems to be cropping up more. I’m going to look into it, as it seems to largely negate the point in a label. They should pay, and recoup that cost from revenue

[@Andrea.Zechmeister]

Thank you for taking part in the Shingo Nakamura - "Glow" Remix Contest Opportunity! The submission period has now ended and the curators will continue reviewing the entries. You'll receive a notification if you make the finalist shortlist (if you haven't already). Best of luck! 💚 2 years ago I am stay by Label Radar

[@samm6648]

A load of wonderful information! Was a perfect listen while doing my work. Thanks for the video!

[@EDMTips]

You're very welcome! Glad you liked it 🙂🙌🏻

[@aDeedADay]

i may have missed it but looking at their fan app it seems as though it needs updating? it's a great idea and would be great to hear the clips of other artists that are up there and what you're competing with. Good video. will look to demo some of mine on there next year when they're ready!

[@TelomicUK]

Super insightful, been great to see LabelRadar grow over the past few years

[@EDMTips]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🙂

[@SpeedRacerx89]

Very great video. This sounds like a long-needed application for the label side.

[@EDMTips]

I think it benefits both - labels and upcoming artists too.

[@boronoro]

Cheers, Will! Thank you very much for your tremendous effort, work and content! Rock!!

[@EDMTips]

Thank you so much for your kind words of support, much appreciated! 🙂🙌🏻

[@Bl4ckbunnymusic]

Your information is very accurate always and it has helped a lot of people like me! The information you give is S tier.

[@EDMTips]

Thank you so much for watching and supporting the channel, I appreciate that! 🙌🏻

[@hitdrumhard]

i have been on label radar for a bit, gotten a few tracks signed, which is great. However the idea of getting a feedback on which label(s) might be more interested in a track sounds amazing but hasn't happened yet.

[@EDMTips]

Yet is a key word in that sentence. Keep on pushing, and don't give up! 🙌🏻

[@gaston7428]

Does anyone have experience with sending music to promoters on Label Radar? From what I see in the comments, like labels asking for promotion money upfront from the artists etc. it seems like you don't need a label for that. Then its better to pay a promoter yourself and you can have more control of it (for instance, you can keep the rights to your music yourself). Releasing on platforms is dead easy these days. The only thing you need a label for is actually the promotion and the connections they have with DJ's, but like I said that can also be done with promoters.

[@aledarimini]

Some labels have a selection of genres on LabelRadar that is completely different from what they actually release. Also, the genre definition for a track is sometimes a gray area, e.g. is it Progressive-House or Progressive-Trance? Is it Dance or Electro-House? So sometimes it's impossible to avoid the "don't send the wrong genre" situation. For this reason, a great addition to LabelRadar would be to have the ability to choose 2 or 3 genres that a track can fall into.

[@EDMTips]

Great suggestion! It is indeed hard as genres interwine and ovelap, but the best way I found to do it is to listen to the label you would like to submit your track to and see if your music will fit into their current roster.

[@JasonLeVega]

I have a sort of unrelated/but related question. I have been asked to do a remix of a somewhat famous producer, as well as 'won' a remix contest by another producer who said they would both release my remix at some point. They both said they loved it and would release it. But neither of them ever did. Is this because they didn't actually like the remix, or, perhaps my mix was not clean enough? I'm just curious if this has ever happened to you or others and what's normally the reason if there is one? Is it weird to follow up? I also hesitate to upload them to my soundcloud because i'm thinking it would deflate true release process. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

[@richardwilliams4669]

Sounds like an amazing product. I’ll definitely be looking into this

[@EDMTips]

Nice one! Glad you found it helpful and good luck with your submissions :)

[@doctordeejay8630]

Also you should include an option to save the labels you are interested on, that way you can send your demos one to one more efficiently!!! That would be an excellent tool!

[@lancealex382]

2 minutes in and I feel like I'm watching Max Headroom

[@abrahamclark767]

What is that

[@mikaelhedlund1]

😀Exactly my thought as well.

[@savedbysynths]

Hey Will love your videos! any chance you could do a ''How to make music in the style of" Indie Dance i.e. Damon Jee, Darlyn Vlys, AKKFT, Adana Twins etc?

[@EDMTips]

These are great suggestions, I will add them to my list and let's see how many people will vote for it!

[@ozguromak]

what about dj mixes that get released on spotify?

[@sugarskulldigital7769]

What's the difference between label submission and promoter submission?

[@RolledInARaw]

The fine details are real. Thank you all.

[@EDMTips]

Cheers! 🙂🙌🏻

[@djicebreaker80]

Thank you so much, I love the idea of everything in real time that is fantastic, is black hole on there’s they just want a mp3 upload, on there platform

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome! :)

[@Justin-pt9pt]

This is a great service.

[@EDMTips]

Cheers!

[@raffaelesantabarbara1449]

There’s always room for improvement, BUT what they’ve been able to achieve so far, with LabelRadar, it’s truly remarkable. Thank you for sharing, Will.

[@EDMTips]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🙌🏻

[@MrMattmoffett]

How long was Ed Brew's opening monologue before the editing?

[@DourenToyongan-po8td]

@EDMTips is it possible for other producers around the world such as my country Philippines? Like getting seen by label from around the world.

[@EDMTips]

Great question! I think today it doesn't matter where you're from. Music production is a global industry so keep up the hard work and you'll get there at the end :)

[@DourenToyongan-po8td]

@@EDMTips Thank you so much

[@anticyclone7027]

I Realease my Music through labelbase. It is good for Start Label Rader is awesome but I made some Dance pop Songs can I get signed through label Rader Where can I get signed if I'm making in Pop Genre

[@geibre]

Scrillex .. the really early dance music pioneers ... 😂😂😂

[@FeliciaMitchellOfficial]

Oh my God! I found this application on my iPhone! 😮

[@EricBalcon]

Well well, first : very good video, it's a nice promotion for the guys. Secondly, when you look at the reviews there's nothing exciting to expect from it. Unless your music is pretty awesome but then why waste your time with radar label ? I tried it months ago, nothing happened, I am probably crap , I know ...lol. But..I am quite puzzled. The music business industry is completely destroyed, people are not really fan anymore , they just flick, listen and forget .

[@Marc0644]

Skrillex… a really early dance music pioneer 😂

[@SonicFictionTV]

LOL, I also noticed that verbal incident 😁

[@Salkinmusic]

Personally, I have so many musical ideas but not the knowledge to create it… Wich is why I really want to get “lifted” by a bigger producer, to take me in for a “proove” session to show and explain all my ideas. I can hear all the different elements in my head, but can’t find the sounds or record quality recordings 😅

[@sixfeetwonder_]

Haha thanks man I needed that

[@EDMTips]

Practice makes perfect, Salkn, or close to it. 🙂

[@sixfeetwonder_]

@@EDMTips i don't think he said he was practicing. He said he has ideas and wants another producer to make them lol. It's a form of madness don't encourage it haha

[@Tom40Rocks]

Those days Artists can start their own label and upload to all streaming platforms and own 100% of the music they create. What is the benefit to signing up with a label?

[@EDMTips]

Great questions! It depends on where you're on your journey and what your goals are, but generally speaking the benefits can be: distribution, promotion & marketing, audience size, support and so on.

[@dilbydj]

This man really just said "Skrillex and a lot of the other really early dance music pioneers" 🤣🤣🤣 That's right, Skrillex invented electronic music in 2010... 🤣🤣🤣

[@djbernidotcom]

Yeah that one had me in stitches as well, obviously these guys don't have that much experience...

[@Dave_Zky]

we do need to be honest, they also want more profit, like having "oh label put you on there whatchlist but you cant see it, if not pay more for pro"

[@EDMTips]

Any business needs to have profit to operate. For as long as the business provides value to its customers, everyone should remain happy, don't you think?

[@raheelsabir9441]

Love From UAE

[@EDMTips]

Cheers!

[@aaronjones5554]

Let’s be honest here , labels are a dying breed , you do NOT need a label to kick off your career in the music industry , there are so much other if not better options !

[@EDMTips]

You're right that one does NOT need a label to kick off your career, but I don't think that labels are a dying breed

[@digivolt]

@@EDMTips What do labels actually do these days ? It would be interesting for you to do a vid on things labels actually do for artists, all I ever hear is what artists have to do for the labels and it sounds like they have to do most of the heavy lifting, so what is the label fee going towards apart from being part of a "name" ?

[@Barfunkel]

Maybe, but then again, when you check out any charts (be it Beatport or uk top 10 or massive amounts of spotify plays or whatever), it's hardly ever DIY self released music. Bandcamp exists but to be honest, I don't remember anyone getting famous there, with no label support at all.

[@Bthelick]

Agreed. As professional of a decade and a half in the industry My advice regarding labels is to only sign if they have the inherent pre-bought connections to live venues that you have already assessed are essential for your growth. Beyond that labels have lost all power. And this 'music first' approach is incredibly naive imo. It's not how it works in the real world. A track is nothing in a vacuum, and nothing without a brand / story. Labels have rapidly deteriorating power to influence the zeitgeist and therefore your reputation, and they absolutely do not have the budget to break an artist from cold anymore. That's a minimum of 500k. You would have to be discussing with Sony universal act and it would have to be a predetermined brand deal including 360 of merchandise sync etc already sewn up.

[@DWINC]

Dying breed? Who told you that?!

[@FAM_Crew]

Rights and money, for sure 🤣

[@shawnmurphy4757]

To avoid the problem of submitting the an inappropriate genre, I would be helpful to learn how to recognize which genre one's track is actually in. The excessive subgenrefication of EDM is, frankly, unnecessarily complicated. It feels more like a tool for snobbery than a tool for conveying meaningful differences.

[@notalkaroo5921]

He said skrillex AND just the really early dance music pioneers. He wasn't insisting skrillex was a dance music pioneer. C'mon guys your ears are better than that.

[@j.j8114]

skrillex dance music pioneer??? excuse me?

[@MYerra99]

I mean yeah; brostep blew up because of Skrillex let's be honest

[@SHRWM]

IMO.. label radar seems like a false promise, used it to submit to anjuna but they're yet to listen

[@EDMTips]

I think there was a point early on about labels staying active on the platform. Not something that they can control, I would have thought?

[@nemanjavp]

I never send to them cause they don't listen..

[@SHRWM]

@@EDMTips only talking from my sole experience using the site, might venture back at some stage but my experience so far was a little off-putting... I find discord to be a far more effective way of submitting and receiving feedback. Definitely from stress records atleast

[@lukeurquhart7489]

"skrillex and the really early dance music pioneers?" you can't open a video with a guest saying something that stupid... 1:14 in and I'm out.

[@EDMTips]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@cigottro]

Thanks for sharing this valuable info! 🎙🎚🎛

[@EDMTips]

You're welcome, glad you liked it! Any point in particular you found useful?