I recently entered a song competition. It was expensive in that you had to pay £15 a song but it seemed to be offset by getting 6 month’s free entry to Broadjam.com and songU.com. I’ve heard nothing about how my song did in the competition and suspect that I’m unlikely to. However, I got my free subscriptions to both sites. Having googled Broadjam there seems to be a lot of discussion about whether or not it is a scam. When you log in it looks exciting with publishing companies for films, tv companies and unnamed recor d companieslooking for songs. However, you have to pay $5 for every song you submit with no guarantee , of course, that you will be successful.
I recently read an article about Reverbnation which alleged that you have to pay $40 to leave Reverbnation and that they still retain the rights to your song. Of course these are only unsubstantiated allegations. I don’t know how true they are but I wondered if anyone at SongwriterSundays has had any experience of these or similar sites?
The Music Industry has always had more than it’s fair share of sharks of course but are we getting into a false sense of security by thinking that the internet has arguably lessened the power of established record companies, publishers etc and increased opportunities for a more DIY approach. Has it simply increased the feeding opportunities for more sharks?