"Y" and "D" verses "S" listing

[orest]

I don't know if this topic fits in here, but I will give it a try! Is it more likely that my music will be accepted (when it is forwarded) in the Y and D listing when the producer has approved it? The S listing is first approved by Taxi, then it must be approved by the producer. Or do the producer accept a lot of material and then he will choose again from selected songs?

[aubreyz]

Unless the listing says the client will be screening submissions themselves all listings are first screened by Taxi. With the S listings we receive a critique, but the other listings are still screened though all we get back is a Yes/No.HTHAub

[davewalton]

May 30, 2008, 12:40pm, orest wrote:I don't know if this topic fits in here, but I will give it a try! Is it more likely that my music will be accepted (when it is forwarded) in the Y and D listing when the producer has approved it? The S listing is first approved by Taxi, then it must be approved by the producer. Or do the producer accept a lot of material and then he will choose again from selected songs? Maybe there's a little more of a likelihood that a listing screened by the listing company would result in a deal. But... I've had music "forwarded" when the listing company did the screening but never heard back so a deal from one of those forwards is far from a guarantee. I think in any case here's what they wind up with back at their office - a nice collection of music to choose from when making the final decision to offer a deal or deals. Personally, I never look at that aspect of the listing. Only at how well I think I can meet the criteria of the listing. Good music that meets the needs of the listing clients is what gets the deal. Also, I'll submit for critiqued listings regardless of my perceived chances where I'm interested in improving my music for that particular style. I don't know of a better way to improve and/or learn about new genres than through a series of submissions for critiqued listings. In those, my object is the learning aspect of Taxi but if I happen to get forwarded... icing on the cake!

[mazz]

A forward with no deal right away doesn't mean no deal with that client ever. If they screened the music themselves and took it with them (a forward), then it's in their office. If they don't choose it for the specific project the listing was for, that doesn't mean they wouldn't pick it for another project months or even years down the line. If it's good music, it has a long shelf life and if you're in their office, then you're that much closer to a deal. Could you have gotten the music into their office on your own? Maybe, maybe not.That shouldn't stop you from submitting the same material to other appropriate listings. If you sign the song to another company and the first company calls you, you can cheerfully offer to write them a new, better song than the other one because, sorry, it's been signed already. That makes you look good too!Good luck!!Mazz

[jude3]

To make things even more wacky, I just singned a 5 song deal where the conpany picked two of my songs that were not even on the listing.I, nor Taxi knows how they found them, but they did. So my advise is don't worry, and submit often. Apparrently you never know what is going to happen.

[mazz]

Ahhh, the music business.........

[davewalton]

May 30, 2008, 5:01pm, jude3 wrote:To make things even more wacky, I just singned a 5 song deal where the conpany picked two of my songs that were not even on the listing.I, nor Taxi knows how they found them, but they did. That's pretty good and congratulations! The best I've ever done in that kind of thing is accidentally clicking the wrong song in Taxi's online submission thing and wound up getting forwarded anyway. But... you're the one with the deal so "you da man!". But... it's like getting a hole-in-one by shanking the ball straight into the woods, bouncing it off at tree before it rolls onto the green and into the hole. It still says "1" on the card. I

[orest]

May 30, 2008, 5:01pm, jude3 wrote:To make things even more wacky, I just singned a 5 song deal where the conpany picked two of my songs that were not even on the listing.I, nor Taxi knows how they found them, but they did. So my advise is don't worry, and submit often. Apparrently you never know what is going to happen.Oh, that is really cool! Well, I am just wondering because I'm new here. But I am sending in material every week to different listings. I am also trying to have one new song idea everyday. I am not using everything, but it is a way to improve my writing as well as my recording techniques.