There is no blueprint for breaking into the music industry. You can quite easily list a sample of different artists all of whom have achieved some degree of success, and yet when you look at the ways in which they were all able to break into the music industry, you will find that they all took different routes.
I got the opportunity to speak to an artist who was on the same journey as me other day, and I came to the conclusion that unlike becoming a doctor or becoming a lawyer there is no official blueprint for becoming a successful artist in the music industry.
You know exactly when you become a doctor because you have passed an exam or maybe you were given a job, a contract with hours, regulations how much you're going to earn every year so on and so forth.
You know exactly when you become a lawyer because you have passed the bar, maybe you’ve been able to get a job working for a particular firm or you know you become a lawyer because you're representing a client and you're trying to help them win their case vice versa.
How do you know when you've made it as a musical artist? How do you know when you've made it as a singer, songwriter or rapper? It's important to ask yourself these questions because you can find yourself dedicating years into your craft only to find that you've been running around in circles the whole time.
The chances are that you are going to want to become a profitable business, you are going to want to build a community, and you are going to want to become visible, recognisable, and renowned by the wider community of people around the country and possibly around the entire globe.
Either way, success is going to be very specific to you and what you want, which is why it's important to sit down every now and again, and review the list of all the different things that you want to accomplish, or begin to write one if you haven't done so already.
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