4 CD Packs

Global Journey Have you checked out the fantastic new 4CD packs yet? Head on over to the Global Journey website to find out more... www.global-journey.com

Chant with Nature

What a good idea- ever popular Gregorian Chants sublimely blended with relaxing sounds from nature. Our new release "Nature's Chant" has soared into our top 5 best sellers and is one of our most popular ever new releases.

 

Click here to listen to an mp3 sample

 

Passion

Two of my greatest passions in life are Tennis and Music. Last weekend Roger Federer became the greatest tennis player of all time winning the Wimbledon Championship for the 6th time at the same time as winning his 15th Grandslam, breaking the previous record set by Pete Sampras.

My appreciation of great tennis is similar to my appreciation of great music. I have a liking for very diverse styles of music and always get excited when a new album is released by a favourite artist or group. I believe that a band or an artist is only as good as their last album, which brings me nicely to Global Journey's new releases. We are only as good as the latest titles we release and have we got some superb new albums being launched next month.

In striving to become the world's best producer of great quality Relaxation / Lifestyle & World Music, we are very excited about our next lot of new releases. I believe these new titles are all going to create a lot of excitement and become big sellers for sometime to come. So, keep an eye on our site over the next few weeks for the following exciting new titles: Gregorian Chant, Piano by the Sea, Classical Thunder, Ancestors, World Voices.

Where are my free mp3s?

Judging from the number of searches and website enquiries a lot of people have heard about our free mp3 giveaway. Among the more popular search terms for this blog is "Global Journey free mp3s". So let's not beat about the bush, I know why you're here and this is what you're looking for: http://www.global-journey.com/free/

If that whets your appetite then you can download more at emusic and most other download sites.

Celebrating ten years

We're delighted to be celebrating ten years of Global Journey music. We'll be splashing out on special offers and promotions over the rest of the year, so join us in enjoying our special year.

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PRS Again

You can rely on the PRS to let down the music business. With musicians struggling just as much as everyone else in the credit crunch PRS have failed again to see reality.

Their latest failure to engineer a deal with YouTube is regrettable. PRS say they argue the case of the songwriters but once again fail to disclose which artists would be covered by a new deal with YouTube.

One reason that PRS won't disclose who will benefit from a new deal with YouTube is that apart from the PRS fat cats earning £400,000 a year the main beneficiaries will be the multi-millionaire artists whose videos will be most played on YouTube while the smaller musicians will see little.

Unfortunately all PRS will succeed in doing, in their aggressive approach with YouTube, is further drive people to piracy sending them to illegitimate video and music websites.

The Performing Rights Society (PRS)

The Performing Rights Society (PRS) are up to their old tricks again, calling small businesses with menaces and demanding payment for playing the radio as it is “providing entertainment”. Royalties should be paid to composers and songwriters and we should all accept and agree with this. However should we pay the composers and songwriters twice? After all when you listen to the music the radio station has already paid PRS for the performance, so why should you and everyone else where the radio can be heard by more than one person at a time? If you listen to CDs or legal downloads then the royalty has been paid in the purchase price of the disk or download.

 

PRS paid its top fat cat a salary of £425,000 in 2007, so before you think that perhaps the small time musician is entitled to a second bite of the cherry remember that much of the money collected goes to PRS salaries and admin costs.

 

If you have a small business and want to avoid paying PRS then you have options. Either play the radio for personal use only, ensuring that no-one else can hear it, or play PRS free music. Older classical music or music from companies such as Global Journey (the company I work for) sell music that it not registered with PRS. Play their music, even as in-store music for entertainment and you're in the clear. Don't forget that if you've got music on hold PRS will seek you out for that too, so change your hold music to royalty free music too!