November Diary

philfischer

November 2007

Dear brothers and sisters,
This month was crazy.
I spent the entire month sitting there staring at my download numbers and I am still struggling with this whole music industry issue. It’s beginning to bug me at the point of losing sleep. I just can’t wrap my mind around how dishonest the whole music industry is. Now the radio contact says he won’t spin any of my singles unless I get a deal with a record label/distribution firm. They want this so that they can charge them to spin my songs!
Yesterday a very well known Christian recording artist that swore me to secrecy told me that he broke down finally and paid for radio play nationwide on almost all Christian stations. He gets upwards of 10 spins a day on one of his singles at almost all of the stations and he had to fork over $98,909.00 dollars to make that happen. Everyone knows this practice is common and I myself have been approached and told that if I just paid for it, I would make it up in sales but something is just so evil about this practice. This is how the world does it. This stuff is for the Hannah’s and the Britney’s of the world. I know it’s crazy but I just cannot bring myself to pay for people to hear the words and sounds that God gave me no matter what the result would be.
First of all, it’s illegal to do this but the way the labels are getting around this is by “buying” something and or “donating” something to an “entity” that is in a roundabout way owned by the corporation that owns the radio stations. That way they stay out of trouble. They cannot openly accept money to spin a song on the radio.
Once the funds are received by the “entity”, your songs are put into rotation. The more you pay, the more stations “spin” your single. I got to tell you brothers and sisters, this makes me sick to my stomach. When you start to add in all of the lip-synching during live performances and the worldly labels pushing into the Christian market these days just because Christians are still buying cd’s, it just makes me angry.
I am going to have to repent or something because I need to put this behind me and I am sorry about complaining about it here. I have not slept in weeks. How can we compete with someone shelling out 100K for play? I just hate that the enemy has emerged into the Christian market this deeply. He is taking over slowly and it makes me mad that I cannot do anything about it. I know some of these artists don’t even sing and I know many that use pro-tools during performances. In many of these performances the only thing that is real is the drums. I thought we were Christians? I thought that our music was meant for something better. I thought that we were supposed to be sending out to the four corners of the earth the word of God. Am I crazy? Am I old fashioned?
I have to be careful of this diary because some people will claim that I am jealous of anyone successful at selling music. Brothers and sisters you know how many albums I sold of my first cd, so please don’t think that but I am telling you that I am upset at the enemy and those that have been deceived because the enemy is keeping the “true word” of God from people that need it the most. Christian radio should be spinning anointed musicians whose songs speak to people, lift people up, give them confirmations, and also songs that speak to non-believers. We must be better than this because we are Christians.
I mean let’s be honest with each other. Are we true believers? I look at my own life and I feel ashamed. Why am I worried about this? Won’t God take care of me? Where is my faith?

Dear Lord, Father in heaven please hear my prayer.
Father God I repent for being angry. Lord you in your infinite wisdom know what is happening here on earth father God with your music Lord and I pray that you forgive me for being in the flesh and I beg forgiveness for my lying tongue and my prideful heart. Change me Lord, please father God. Lord I step out in faith that you my Lord will take care of my family. Tell me what you want me to do Lord. Tell me how to serve you.
I am your servant Lord. Burn me father. Burn me into the servant you want me to be.

ali-2006

Good luck with all your work and may god give you what you wish for ..

Sweet_Me

I can say its well written !!
Good Luck with your world.
Enjoy it.