{"id":1053431,"date":"2024-03-09T22:57:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T22:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=1053431"},"modified":"2024-03-19T19:28:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T19:28:23","slug":"charles-wesley-godwin-is-proof-that-your-favorite-independent-artist-signing-with-a-major-label-isnt-always-a-bad-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/celebrities\/charles-wesley-godwin-is-proof-that-your-favorite-independent-artist-signing-with-a-major-label-isnt-always-a-bad-thing","title":{"rendered":"Charles Wesley Godwin Is Proof That Your Favorite Independent Artist Signing With A Major Label Isn&#8217;t Always A Bad Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an all-too familiar refrain these days when independent country artists sign with a major label: &#8220;Oh, they sold out.&#8221; In this era of streaming, as well as platforms like YouTube and TikTok, there are more ways than ever to find new music. That means that we&#8217;re seeing more and more independent artists break through and have massive success. I mean, just look at Oliver Anthony. A single video on YouTube racked over 100 million views and rocketed him to a massive arena tour (and three sold-out shows at the Ryman Auditorium) in less than a year. Muscadine Bloodline has also had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an all-too familiar refrain these days when independent country artists sign with a major label: &#8220;Oh, they sold out.&#8221; In this era of streaming, as well as platforms like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}