Single vs. EP vs. CD

If you’re thinking of recording and getting your music ministry out there, you’ve probably wondered what the best option is for releasing your music. Should you make a single and see how it goes? Should you make an EP (which comes from the days when there were Extended Play singles out there with 3-6 songs)? Or should you go ahead and make a full CD of 10 or more songs?

There is no wrong answer here, but there are definitely pros and cons to each that may help you make the decision. The answer really lies in where you are in your career, and what purpose the product is going to serve.

Building the New Music (Ministry) Business

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. - Henry Ford

As a creative Christian music production company, we have found success the old-fashioned way.We connected with Christian artists who had a great need: to reach a new level of success in music ministry.

If you read this blog at all regularly, you know we talk about things that can help Christian artists find that success in ministry. But how did we come by this info? How did we magically know what to say to give you inspiration, ideas, and direction?

What is The Value of Your Music?

These days we’re seeing a lot of people discussing the “devaluation” of music. You may have even heard this recent quote from music superstar Vince Gill:

"The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a [single] cost in 1960. On my phone, I can get an app for 99 cents that makes fart noises -- the same price as the thing I create and speak to the world with. Some would say the fart app is more important. It's an awkward time. Creative brains are being sorely mistreated."

I can understand where he is coming from on this and maybe you can too! But it’s not the same music world that Vince or any of us remember. We live in the disposable music era, like it or not.

Three Reasons Why CDs Are Still Relevant to You

The CD? Isn't that old technology? It's all MP3s and downloading these days right?

Sure. Tell that to your mom who still loves playing them in her car, or your significant other who looks at all those unsold CDs piled up in your garage.

Now this won't be a treatise on whether CDs are a viable format. I still wholeheartedly believe they are. (See this blog.)

But you know you have some to sell, and want to move them. Hey product sales are one of your best incomes as an artist. But how do you do it?