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.

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.