The ask TAG anything podcast.

[TheDescent]

What's the most obscure band you've worked with (released or not)?

What's your policy about splitting up tracks longer than 10 minutes?

[Mithras]

I've got a few.

1) Have you guys ever started authoring a song and realized you can't stand the song? Like if you had to listen to it one more time you might pull your hair out? ( You don't have to say what song)

2) What is the hardest part to chart? Guitar? Drums?

3) Why is licensing "hard"? I mean, can't you just threaten to egg their house if they don't let you use their music? ( I'm totally joking)

4) Have you ever been shocked at how well a song sold? Can you say which song/group?

5) What's the longest you've had a song in review before it actually got released?

[BonJohndy]

Is their a job on internship available for TAG. I was wondering if their was an official title were I can tell bands about RBN and direct them to TAG, or maybe some kind of pamphlets I can give to bands about RBN and TAG.

[BonJohndy]

What has made you all the most and least amount of money? Also what songs you sold the most and least of? Also, if you cam, please tell us how much money made, the number of tracks sold, how much each of those tracks selling for.

[AskariNari]

Also, if you can, please tell us how much money made, the number of tracks sold, how much each of those tracks selling for.

Sorry, but no good authoring group would ever release any of that information to anyone besides the artist/rightsholder.

My questions: 1. Have you ever turned down an artist wanted to release (for reasons other than legal issues)?

2. Are any of the main members of TAG in a band or other musical project?

3. What about that "funny Godsmack story" you mentioned in the request thread?

[machetemonkey]

I've got a few.

1) Have you guys ever started authoring a song and realized you can't stand the song? Like if you had to listen to it one more time you might pull your hair out? ( You don't have to say what song)

2) What is the hardest part to chart? Guitar? Drums?

3) Why is licensing "hard"? I mean, can't you just threaten to egg their house if they don't let you use their music? ( I'm totally joking)

4) Have you ever been shocked at how well a song sold? Can you say which song/group?

5) What's the longest you've had a song in review before it actually got released?

While I'll save my answers for the podcast, as a TAG author I can say these are all good questions (even number 3. Even if you're joking, I guarantee there's a ton of people out there who have NO IDEA why licensing is so hard)

The one hint I'll give you about #5 is that the song in question is releasing tomorrow!

[Mithras]

thought of a few more.

6) What's the quickest that you have gotten a song out? From contacting the band to getting it in the game? Have any "deals" went through so easily that even you even you were amazed?

7) Feel kinda dumb asking this, but if I don't know then others may not know either. What exactly is a "stem"? Is it like a recording, sheet music, not even close?

8) This isn't going to be some twisted April's Fools joke is it? ---Podcast on 4/1--HAHAHA just kidding!!

9) Do the people that work for tag have instruments that they only work on? Like do you have a guy that does guitar and another that does drums, or is it once you do one part you can pretty much do them all?

[lvmathemagician]

Yeah Noble is my real name.

My parents were either hippies, or they hated me.

Possibly both :P

Which of these reasons do you prefer?

[cwilbur]

These might be too business-confidential, but maybe they're worth a try....

1) What do TAG's overall sales figures look like over time? I'm not really interested in hard numbers here, just how RBN DLC sales are (I presume) dropping over time. So, if you want to cite TAG's biggest sales month and just call it "100%", then give a comparative figure for more recent months, that would be fine. Is the current market seeing 50% of the sales of the big month? 10%? 1%? Was the dropoff gradual or sudden? That's what I'm curious about.

2) I recognize it will vary contract by contract, but at a broad level, how is the money split up when I buy a song? Are there fixed constants (like Microsoft's cut and/or HMX's)? Does the band typically get a lion's share or a pittance?

[lvmathemagician]

Have you tried to get Led Zepelin, Pink Floyd or U2 into RBN?