FIRST MOVER: Avenged Sevenfold Lead Vocalist on Why Artists Should 'Never' Sign With a Major Label
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🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Avenged Sevenfold lead vocalist Matt Sanders discusses how Web3 technologies can change the music industry.
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Avenged Sevenfold lead vocalist Matt Sanders joins "First Mover" to discuss the band's new season pass and how NFTs and Web3 technologies are transforming the music industry. Plus, the significance for artists to directly own the rights to their work and engage with their fan base.
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| 0:49.3 | First of, I would never sign with a major label. |
| 0:52.3 | I would never sign a record deal. We live in a world, I was talking to my wife about this today, |
| 0:58.0 | where if you don't have an audience, |
| 1:02.0 | you believe there is a system to plug into |
| 1:05.0 | where they can give you an audience. |
| 1:07.0 | Record labels can't do that for you anymore. They used to have drivers. |
| 1:12.0 | They used to have MTV. |
| 1:13.0 | They used to have radio, which was important. |
| 1:15.3 | The world is so fractionalized out now that everybody's in their own little bubbles, |
| 1:20.5 | listening to the thing that they're listening, whether it's through TikTok or through video games or whatever it's through. |
| 1:26.1 | Labels do not have their finger on the pulse of that stuff anymore. |
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