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Why Should The Band Stay Independent And Continue To Work With UFO?

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Why Should The Band Stay Independent And Continue To Work With UFO?
I believe the band should stay independent and continue to work with UFO, although the group will have to use their money to market, manage, promote, and record they will still end up being more profitable. Even though signing to a label would take care of the marketing aspects, the band would have to make big paybacks that they may never be able to fund, with them being a Celtic band. The labels model itself works with more mainstream music that reaches out to a wide audience, so the Celtic band wouldn’t work because not many people listen to Celtic music. I feel like ETH would be dissatisfied and they would end up with little to no profit at all by the time they were done because they do not have enough people who listen to their music to fund them. The label would have to change ETH’s sound to try to reach a widespan of people. …show more content…
They would get real cash from their independent sales and they could choose how much they would invest into their marketing. With them controlling how they spend their funds they could determine how much profit they will end up having after all the marketing is done. The bad thing about staying independent is that they can’t just focus on their music they have to worry about promoting, and marketing it also. UFO also doesn’t have connections with big business names so they won’t be able to do what a label can do for the Celtic group. But according to Brian Buchanan he doesn’t mind only reaching a small group of people as long as they do what they love. I believe the group should stay independent they will end up being more profitable while doing what they love, I see no need to sign to a

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