Making It In One Year - Is It Possible?

I'm makin' it
I've got the chance, I'm takin' it
No more, no more, Fakin' it
This time in life, I'm makin' it (ooo)

http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/making-it-in-one-year-is-it-possible.html

lol @ http://www.musicthinktank.com/mtt-radio/2010/8/20/every-time-we-kiss-acoustic-by-sufficient-cause.html

it is not possible
if you are this guy

So I trained. I became a student of music that is universally considered to be “classic”. I studied the music of bands like U2, Coldplay, Eagles, and Sarah McLachlan.

all together now...

I also studied business. On one hand I saw Major Labels signing talent just to control the market and limit product choice and on the other I watched people like Trent Reznor and Corey Smith making a good living outside the established system.

Along with all this study, I also studied myself. I studied to know how I was different from these great musicians. I learned what my strengths and weaknesses as an artist and as a business person were and worked relentlessly to balance them.

Needs to fade up the bass on the personality there, fella.

fwiw i know more than one person just like this, who make similar sounding music

I've known so many dorks like this, working in a studio as I do, and none of them "make it". He'll probably do ok in marketing eventually.

one dude was a banker, who quit his job to be super calculating and professional about pursuing a sappy pop career

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lol i know a guy like this too

apparently everybody knows a guy like this?

we should get all the guys like this together in one room

and then drop that room into the earth's molten core

You know them until they get famous! Then they drop you like a hot potato. Or they would, if they ever "made it", which they don't.

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I wonder if James Blunt had a plan like this

http://www.superiorpunchingpower.com/

wowowow this website
http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/for-musicians-10-tips-for-turning-your-fanbase-into-a-tribe.html

Again, Jack Johnson has done an excellent job of this with his All At Once campaign. Not only has he created a tribe of his fans who also feel strongly about living a more green, sustainable lifestyle, but he has created an online social network component that gives people a place to learn and educate how they can better their lives and communities at large. And again, his music has become the soundtrack to the movement, as seen in the campaign video shown above.

xpost oh THAT was the plan he was singing about on "Yr Beaut"

This was the case with the Phish-heads who felt strongly enough about the fact that bassist Mike Gordon was not turned up enough in the live mix, that they worked together to get his bass turned up by creating a campaign called People For A Louder Mike (which was featured in Bass Player magazine in 1998 and resulted in successfully having his bass turned up!).

Pithy comments are inadequate here

That article is basically a how-to guide for wannabe cult leaders