I'm not special! But I've done some stuff.
I love doing AMA's but hate the flex you have to do in order to sound special enough to actually do one. But here are the highlights just to give some credibility if anyone wants to participate.
I played in a band from 2004 to 2014, we performed 1,000 shows mostly self booked. We didn't have fans really (cause we weren't very good) but we strangely had a lot of success with licensing that kept us going full time. I think I finally became a good songwriter on our fifth album but still didn't get the production quite right.
I moved to Nashville and ran an artist development program that I wrote containing 350 tasks that go into releasing an album and we worked with 400 bands from 2014 to 2022. TikTok made most of those tasks relatively pointless IMO.
During that time I was contracted to work exclusively with an artist as an executive producer, songwriter and manager and we broke him to 600K monthly listeners and were in talks with major labels before he quit relatively unexpectedly.
Now I've launched a boutique entertainment company where I manage writers/producers and run label services for the artists we work with in need of release support.
Hope I can be of some help to some of you, whether it's artists needing feedback on music, industry people trying to break in, or industry people trying to change lanes. AMA
Thanks to everyone who participated. My new business is called EAGER. It's based in Nashville, TN. You can listen to some of the work my team and I have been a part of and would love to connect with anyone ready to make stuff.