News and announcements from That Authoring Group

[FairwoodStudios]

But they don't have anything to lose, do they? I mean, unless they need to put money into splitting the masters or something.

That's occasionally the case, especially with anything of age. And sometimes even with newer material, they have to go pay for some studio hours to get the material.

Yet another reason it's easier to deal with unsigned artists. Even though the payoffs aren't quite A7X size.

[TheStuddz]

I like hearing from the authoring groups about licensing and stuff, even if it's about sad things, like deals that went through. It's a cool little behind-the-scenes.

[jibjqrkl]

random question cause all the authoring group seem to be looking in here

Brocas Helm? Manilla road? any chance, ever?

(srry didnt really feel like putting to much effort in this like creating a thread or something )

[Arcanon]

random question cause all the authoring group seem to be looking in here

Brocas Helm? Manilla road? any chance, ever?

(srry didnt really feel like putting to much effort in this like creating a thread or something )

Always a chance for any band who wants to be in RBN, as long as they want to. Contact them, get them interested and point them to an authoring group.

All groups have a list of large bands that pulled out...

The lucky ones do. In my case, the few big bands we've ever contacted that have actually replied back, we've released on RBN. Of the hundreds of emails I've sent, I've gotten a few "yes" replies, a couple "no", and the majority no reply at all.

Thankfully, my submissions inbox has quite a number of artists interested in getting in the game, and our clients tend to want to put more songs in after the fact. I'm sure the same goes for most groups.

[ssmpentertainment]

Yeah we actually had the first two albums all but sown up to bring to RBN.

Then HMX snatched one of the tracks away from us (Unholy confessions) and Rock Blocked us on that one.

Still we were pressing forward, and then of course the collapse with GH and the bottom falling out of the music games industry kind of made the label skittish. So we settled on just two tracks from the second album (I won't see you tonight pt 1, and Chapter Four).

However with sales slipping even further and further on RBN content, I'm fairly certain that this isn't going to happen at this point. We've had a lot of big named bands lined up that have since backed out due to the falling sales.

I could list all of them but I don't want to make you guys all weep >_>

I carry this burden alone :P

its too bad cuz those two songs are great.

[ASPKev]

All groups have a list of large bands that pulled out...

Yep, I know I've got a few.
One band we were in talks with, a month or so ago actually, pulled out, although to be fair, it was because they ended up getting in touch with Harmonix instead and wanted to go through official DLC channels instead of RBN once they had the option.

[SeymourDuncan17]

So sad the sales have supposedly dropped so much. Would've been awesome to have another band like A7X on the RBN.

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

Oh they have dropped.

For instance when RBN first started songs hit 10,000 downloads. When we (TAG) first started it wasn't uncommon for a song to hit 5000 downloads.

Now if it hits 1000 it's doing insanely well.

For most established labels/bands that's just no longer worth their time, unfortunately.

[wafflerevolution]

in my opinion, it's because Rock Band 3 has far too little to enjoy.

[lvmathemagician]

I have to wonder if more RBN songs than the market can stand are being released.