Board Thread:Music/@comment-4146635-20160129035558

Hey ya'll!

So I was fixing up the Wiki Records page the other day and I was thinking. Basically when signed to a label you release music. You can release a single, a song, an album, an EP, you can release it in any form, but the four I mentioned are the promiment ones. We only really acknowledge single, album, and EP but I was thinking, maybe we should start acknowledging song releases.

Basically, like I said, artists can release music in any form. Let's talk individual releases of songs. A single is a song that is used for promotion for the artist. It is the main headliner, the song that gets sent to the radio stations, the song that is promoted to the public. But not every individual song you release from a label you'll want to be a single, ya know? Like take Chesney for example, she just released Make it in America as a single, something to promote her upcoming album. But let's say later this month she wants to release a song called Girl Up for a charity event she's doing, but not as a single (not to promote her music), just a simple release to the public for her charity. Silly mentioned this before, there's a difference between a single release and a simply song release.

So I'm thinking maybe we should have that specified on pages, on the Wiki Records, and just on the wiki in general. This would make the career paths of artists a lot clearer to see. Every artists releases singles but a lot of them also release songs in between (Ex: Selena Gomez had her singles Good for You and Same Old Love release before her album but she also had Me & the Rhythm release but that was just a song release, not a single release, it wasn't meant for promotion).

What do you guys think? 