Music Growth Talks: Podcast For Musicpreneurs

Chris Eckman is a co-founder of Glitterbeat Records, a German record label specializing in “vibrant global sounds,” which won the Best Label award at the WOMEX music conference in both 2014 and 2015. Chris talked to Andrew Apanov for our podcast right after the end of the MENT Ljubljana panel he moderated. The name of the panel was "The New Life of Indie Labels," and the speakers were Tony Duckworth ([PIAS] Poland, PL), Andy Bibey (One Little Indian Records, UK), Dace Volfa (I Love You Records, LV), and Miran Rusjan (Moonlee Records, SI). In this WeSpin Recipes episode, Chris Eckman comments on the "brutally tough" business of running a record label, reminds of the importance of a local market knowledge, shares the things labels look for in artists besides their music, and talks on why this industry doesn't treat artists as VIPs anymore. Listen to the conversation to also learn how many CDs and vinyls Glitterbeat ships to Scandinavian countries compared to the UK, and why some labels end up promising artist