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For the past 2 years I've been running an in-house show with a business partner who is a long time KJ. We did 3 hours of karaoke each night and then a 3 hour dance party, 7 nights a week at a resort hotel bar. Since I was the DJ, I supplied the music and he supplied the karaoke tracks. I got most of my music from my PrimeCuts subscription with an occasional download of a cd or singles from Amazon or Itunes.
In April I decided I was tired of the 7 nights a week, out of town, gig and he stayed and hired another DJ. Of course, all the karaoke music was his and we ran probably one of maybe 3 legal shows in the whole area. Now I'm wanting to crank my karaoke business up here, but without spending a small fortune.
I purchased the Sweet Georgia Brown set, SuperCore 2008, 2009 and 2010, as well as ASK Party pack and Karaoke Hits set. So I have around 2800 songs total. I looked at the top 500 songs for karaoke for 2010 and so far I have about 175 of them. I know Sound Choice and Chartbuster are very active against folks without discs and I have none of their products. There are still thousands of karaoke tracks out there and, of course, the competition is stiff for locations here.
My questions is, who "polices" all the other brands, including the orphaned ones, from abuse. I know Sound Choice and Chartbuster have the best product but still plenty of choices. So even though guys aren't using the 2 brands, I'm still in the position of being undercut when other KJs don't buy ANY tracks, have liability insurance or a business license.
Looks like for the most part, it's still a wild west out there, just with them dropping the 2 brands from their catalog. Any comments?
In April I decided I was tired of the 7 nights a week, out of town, gig and he stayed and hired another DJ. Of course, all the karaoke music was his and we ran probably one of maybe 3 legal shows in the whole area. Now I'm wanting to crank my karaoke business up here, but without spending a small fortune.
I purchased the Sweet Georgia Brown set, SuperCore 2008, 2009 and 2010, as well as ASK Party pack and Karaoke Hits set. So I have around 2800 songs total. I looked at the top 500 songs for karaoke for 2010 and so far I have about 175 of them. I know Sound Choice and Chartbuster are very active against folks without discs and I have none of their products. There are still thousands of karaoke tracks out there and, of course, the competition is stiff for locations here.
My questions is, who "polices" all the other brands, including the orphaned ones, from abuse. I know Sound Choice and Chartbuster have the best product but still plenty of choices. So even though guys aren't using the 2 brands, I'm still in the position of being undercut when other KJs don't buy ANY tracks, have liability insurance or a business license.
Looks like for the most part, it's still a wild west out there, just with them dropping the 2 brands from their catalog. Any comments?