Why The Music Industry Hates Artists Without Teams | Mindset Mondays

Without a team you will not make it the music industry. You need to treat your career as a business and build the right framework. Brandman Sean, Co-Founder of Contrabrand Agency, gives you the tools to take the first steps.

[BrandmanNetwork]

The videos I mentioned at the end will be dropping this week.

[listenandvibe]

forming a team has bee one of the greatest challenges in my musical journey and need more insight on how to go about forming a team

[lonelyswordmusic]

Here are my thoughts on building a team around you. This is from what I have seen in my artist friends experiences and my own personal experiences.
1. Don't beg for people's help without knowing how you want to go about things. Having a vision is incredibly important and you shouldn't put too much of that in the hands of others because it should be your dream. Take any critiques from them though.

2. Be authentic! Too many times people try to sell you on their dream, but they have no interest in what you are doing personally. If you help the people you want on your team get to their dreams, then they will gladly join you most of the time.

3. Most of the work should be done on your own and only go to your team with specific questions on what you need specific help on. If you run to them with every problem under the sun and you have done no work to try to figure it out, people will quickly walk away and ghost you.

4. Learn more skills. You need to understand what everyone on your team does so that you can also empathize with them when things go wrong. Need someone to help you build a website, learn what it takes to build one, and when things go wrong in them building a website for you, you can come from their a place of understanding and that will put them at ease. They will work harder for you too because you took the extra step to know what they are going through.

5. Celebrate your teammates when they do good shit. Be real with them when they don't but be encouraging! When they do anything for you big or small, thank them. Very rarely do people actually receive gratitude from the things they do best. But, when they do, they see the reason they started doing what they were doing again and chase it even harder.

6. Be patient. Most artists take years to reach the place they dreamed about and there will still be more to do. Don't rush your teammates unless you know of opportunities that you can grab that day or the next. This piggy backs on learning more skills because you also learn how long it takes to get things done and this will help you be more patient and encourage your teammates.

7. Always know the direction your heading or fake it like you do. The worst thing for you to do as a leader is to show fear of not knowing where to go. You should follow your gut and research as much as you can. When you run into a time you don't know what to do, brainstorm and try something quickly. Do not be idle for too long or you will lose the team's faith in moving forward. Momentum is huge. Use it wisely.

8. Be honest. Ask for help when you need it. Talk to your team about things you are struggling with and get them to talk about theirs. Become closer and they will do even more for you. As long as everyone is moving forwards towards their dreams or make sure they have chosen your dream to be theirs. As long as everyone believes they are moving forward as a team and individually, you all will be good.

9. Understand empathy and learn how to be more empathetic. People that have no idea about this will struggle the most. You need to know how to hear when someone is off and try to bring them back on the right track as quickly as possible. The longer you let the people around you bottle things up, the more that can will explode down the road and possibly end your whole career.

Most importantly.

10. Have fucking fun guys. It should be a rollercoaster. You will win and lose as a team, but always pull through together! Make great music that comes from the heart. Go on adventures based on a whim sometimes. The more memories you all make together the better!

Everyone''s journey is going to be different, but enjoy it! Hope this helps someone. This was a long ass comment haha

[SpectrumTheOriginator]

I tried to explain this to a couple people I used to run with. They were never that committed. People fail to understand that everyone has to play a part and they have to play it well.

[erickpurpose]

Appreciate this video, I have done many performances and went to the events alone, no team. It definitely feels weird when you see a lot of the other bands around in groups and you are the only one solo.

[nahte]

Eveyone has fked me over. I have no friends, little connections and little family. I do wish to have more though. Trial and era has taught me my best and biggest success is with ME MYSELF AND I as sad as it is to say

[ORLIANROW]

Bruh I got the best team! My mom and grandma are all I need! 😂

P.S. I live in the middle of nowhere basically so I have to do everything on my own including writing, producing, singing, rapping, marketing etc. 😕🤷🏻‍♂️

[hooleespirit]

That manager thing just happened to me. This man knows what he talking about

[truelifetalks]

If you do it all yourself your worth more 💯💯

[M.R.Rawkingofficial]

This is one of the best helpful music business channels i've come across in youtube

[VSGLife]

Just got this notification. Didn’t even know I was subscribed. Glad I saw it. Great video!!! Very informative.

[edysom]

I just come out with a ideia of building a team recently and I see know that connections is so important, 'cause every artist that is starting to push out their career need to have a finance control of the money invested, networking helps a lot, somethings we can get for free a lot of things, just chasing services with others creators.

[barrytheartist.]

Commitment overall … Imma Young and new artist but been in music my whole life. With my commitment, growing connections and everything else I know I’m one of those few 💯

[E-Los]

Great video!! but what if we don’t have a team? Been being a one man team till I get a team!

[BonattoGui]

This is gold!! You just gained a loyal subscriber

[NonzusMagnus]

Great video! This is vital information.

[qalalamusiq]

Im ready to build a team with any artist here with great vision

[nyvids]

never could form an actual team, just always had seperate people that fill specific team roles

[okaydmuzikkk]

Teams are good until... the ego starts to play a big factor .... sometimes a team. Can hold u back tbh

[UcancallmeTYfrfr]

Thx for this channel! Bout to watch every video!