New KJ help wanted??? Not.....

Bigdog · Post by **Bigdog** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 10:34 am

Over the years I have had many "new" KJs tell me they are starting a karaoke business.

99.999999 % never asked me what they needed to do to be successful.

98% are out of business.

What did I do wrong????

Post by **wiseguy** » Tue Aug 10, 2010 5:43 pm

The typical lifespan of a new KJ is about six months. Most of them think that because they can sing a little, and have the money to buy a karaoke system and music, that they can be successful. They soon find out it takes a lot more than that.

Oh well, it's fine by me. Failed KJs have enabled me to buy a lot of karaoke music cheaply as well as some equipment.

C Mark · Post by **C Mark** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:03 pm

I sure wish I could find one of those failed guys so I can purchase their music. It seems like six months ago there were tons of them out there. They all seemed to have dried up.

Post by **wiseguy** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:38 pm

C Mark wrote:I sure wish I could find one of those failed guys so I can purchase their music. It seems like six months ago there were tons of them out there. They all seemed to have dried up.

They are still out there if you look hard enough. I have bought tons of music off of failed KJs. Most will only sell their entire collection at once as opposed to allowing you to pick through them. Of course I end up with a lot of duplicate discs but it's worth it when you only pay a fraction of the original price.

C Mark · Post by **C Mark** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:45 pm

I hear you wiseguy. I'm getting back in the business after a year hiatus. I was working for friends before. However, now I'm on my own. Once I started researching I realized the library they gave me to use has to be mostly pirated. I'm sure they had some discs for those songs, but no way they have them all. This whole SC thing is scaring the crap out of me. I want to be able to remain in business legally. However, I do think SC is extorting money big time. It's driving me crazy that I can't find a straight answer about anything. I'm not paying what they are asking for GEM especially if I don't own it. There has to be an affordable way to stay legal.

Post by **wiseguy** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:03 pm

Forget about Sound Choice and their scare tactics. And definitely forget about that ridiculous GEM series deal.

The straight answer is to own the disc, or have a receipt for downloaded songs, for every song on your hard drive with only a 1 to 1 copy (with the exception of an emergency backup hard drive). This is how every "legal" KJ in the country who uses a computer and hard drive system operates.

The cheapest way to build a legal karaoke music collection remains to be the purchase of karaoke discs.

C Mark · Post by **C Mark** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:08 pm

So where do you guys purchase from? I'm not finding that route to be so cheap.

Bigdog · Post by **Bigdog** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:00 pm

The music is the most expensive karaoke business related item.

You must use care when selecting the discs/songs.

I have over $50,000 spent on music. At least $20,000 is wasted on dupes.

You can find a lot of bargins on discontinued discs. There are a ton of karaoke sites to visit.

DanG2006 · Post by **DanG2006** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:55 pm

Recently, three months ago, I discovered that the songs I was using would be looked upon as pirated because in January I had stuff stolen from me that included the disc pouches of hundreds of discs. They left me a small pouch of 172 discs to work with. It took me a week to rip them. I built my collection to 10,264 songs by purchasing discs off of ebay that included 10 Super CDG's that amounted to 7000+ songs. I used a converter from www.roxbox.net to convert those supercdgs to Mp3+G.