Radio is becoming more and more important in an artists career, but steady radio play is becoming harder and harder to obtain. The best way for an artist to get radio play that people are listening to is satellite radio via XM or Sirius. This form of radio is more supportive and accepting of independent and unsigned artists.

PROLOGUE: In March of 2007, EMI, facing serious strategic challenges, became the first Major label to issue DRM-free (no copy-protection) downloads on iTunes. To facilitate this, Apple's CEO broke his promise to maintain uniform pricing of 99 cents: DRM-free will cost about 30% more than other sales. Response from the other three competing Major labels was shock and disappointment. Will they be forced to also do DRM-free to compete?

I'm not a big fan of repeating myself, but sometimes it's necessary. In my Moses Supposes of December 2006 I outlined exactly why all the swill about the "decaying music business" was rubbish by has-beens and people who've been downsized from their cushy label jobs. I was in turn slammed by the very people who this type of thinking threatens; those who profit off of the "dying music business" business. Namely, bitter bloggers, DIYers, journalists with a hi-tech bias, and so-called insiders who sell the "You need me to make it" line, and the "Screw the labels," blather. I try to ignore this polarized and oversimplified logic, but it won't go away.