Ms. WUNMI: One of the major experiences I had was with a label, a major label in South Africa.
The self-produced disc found its way to a major label and was released earlier this year by Telarc Records.
After The Format's first disc, EP, generated significant music-industry buzz, a major label released Interventions and Lullabies in 2003.
Since his 2000 major label debut, every one of his seven studio albums has sold at least 500, 000 copies.
He had jumped to a major label, and racked up some radio hits with a glossier sound and homespun ballads.
It's a breakthrough deal -- the first time a major label has allowed another company to store and administer its catalog.
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Results of TREAT prompted a dramatic FDA advisory committee meeting in 2010 followed by a major label revision in 2011.
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Forbes estimates that Cook generated the bulk of his income from the 1.1 million copies sold of his self-titled major label debut album.
The band's major label debut, "The Better Life, " has sold more than six million copies, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
But while independent record companies face losses from HMV's woes, at least one major label is potentially on the hook for a great deal more.
Now operating under their own label, Paracadute Records, OK Go has served as a role-model for aspiring musicians questioning the traditional goal of a major label contract.
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But the Sony package shows that the composer got his act together in a concise, businesslike way whenever he had the opportunity to record for a major label.
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It's a sound that hasn't always connected with the masses: The major label EMI signed the band for its 2005 debut (How Howl Gaff Gaff) and dropped it soon thereafter.
But Fun was already signed to a major label before last year's show, and its tune "We Are Young" had appeared on the television show "Glee" and in a Super Bowl ad.
Although he might have had more control, and had his principles challenged less, if he went with an indie, he bargained that he would further the music more with a major label.
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And really, in the grand scheme of things, Dolby didn't fare that badly, an artist who rode the major label rollercoaster and actually managed to make a name for himself in the process.
Her previous album, Let It Die, helped solidify her as a darling of the indie-rock scene, but her major label debut is an album that both the critics and the broader public seem to love.
Le's just hope Universal and Apple make nice sooner rather than later, because the absence of a major label from iTunes certainly isn't gonna do anything to turn us into a nation of taggers.
How the success of "Nevermind" ignited a major-label feeding frenzy to find "the next Nirvana, " resulting in the signing of previously way-too-weird-for-a-major-label bands such as underground heroes The Jesus Lizard and Japanese noise-rockers the Boredoms.
Last year activity tripled on streaming network Soundcloud, while the average artist on YouTube received nearly 25, 000 views per month and 300, 000 on the major label-oriented VEVO, according to music data provider Next Big Sound.
Digital piracy has been a cause of major concern for labels since Napster became ubiquitous, so the emergence of an unauthorized vinyl version of a major label album might not seem like a big deal by comparison.
"The organic aspect of just showing up for a jam and then we made this track - it's something a major label should have spent six months planning, but it just came out of the blue and I love that, " he said.
The rise and fall of Napster, the dawn of digital, and the ubiquity of high-standard equipment that allows artists to produce without relying on an established (and expensive) recording studio or major label backing, have led to a revolution in the industry in just a few short decades.
Originally a fan-funded project from ArtistShare, Two Shade makes its major-label jump to Decca Records next week.
The company said more than 50, 000 albums, including titles from every major record label, are available for AutoRip.
Parks visited the WBGO studio with the same quartet that appears on Invisible Cinema, his major-label debut.
"Aquamosh, " the band's first major-label release, somehow retains its "recorded in the garage in our spare time" feel of independent albums.
This spring, he released his first major-label album called "Loco Motive"--that's two words--in which he raps over funky beats and country twangs.
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