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Originally Posted by adidasss
Em, no, I wanna be your limousine is. :|
Also, I don't think they're major label material. They certainly won't have the impact of the Arctic Monkeys who didn't sign with a major label but were insanely successful just the same.
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I don't think bringing up Arctic Monkeys is appropriate here because they're in all respects a pretty freak occurrence. The real question is, what *is* major label material?
Far as I'm concerned, if you are popular enough to get a song or an album in the top 10 then you are certainly popular enough to be a highly profitable commodity to a major label. Of course, Arctic Monkeys are without doubt major label material (as are Franz). They could make a lot more money if they sold out.
Also on the topic of major labels, what you find is that there are all sorts of minor acts sitting on these labels that have had pretty much no mainstream success at all. One that springs to mind is "Thirteen Senses" (Mercury, Universal), another senseless Coldplay ripoff. If the labels smell success for a given band on the basis that they seem to fit in nicely within a particular scene and are better than most of the minor competition trying to do the same thing, they'll sign them up. What is interesting, in the case of 13 Senses, is that their lack of success highlights how having major label marketing force behind you does not guarantee surefire success. If the scene is saturated with a particular type of sound (e.g. the I-Wanna-Be-Coldplay ripoff brigade) then chances are the public won't be particularly interested in some newcomer doing the same old thing. So the majors often gamble and get it wrong.