Hopeless Records research
- 1. Hopeless Records About Hopeless Records: The label was started in 1993 by Louis Posen. Hopeless's artists aregenerally considered punk rock, pop punk, post-hardcore, or alternativerock, but some also include elements of various genres of heavy metal. Other acts that are signed to Hopeless: Some of their most well-known artists include or included Sum 41, Neck Deep, Avenged Sevenfold, Thrice, Yellowcard, Anarbor, All Time Low, Taking Back Sunday, There For Tomorrow, Silverstein, WeAre The In Crowd, Bayside, The Used, The Wonder Years, The Human Abstractand Enter Shikari. Successes: The record label is very successfulas someof its more well-known artists have sold thousands of albums and been nominated for many awards in the USA, Canada and the UK. In 2013 AllTime Low won a Kerrang!Award for Best InternationalBand for "A LoveLike War" In 2016 AllTime Low werenominated for MTV Video Music Award Best Rock Video for "Missing You" Sum 41 havemultiplatinum albums In 2014 Neck Deep won the Kerrang!Awarded for Best British newcomer In 2016 Neck Deep won the Kerrang!Award for Best Live Band Why are they appropriate? Hopeless Records is appropriatefor my band as the artists signed to their label are all frompop punk/punk rock stylegenres. And so, like my band, they all need similar requirements fromtheir record label. Also the record label picks up Artists that are juststarting out or are not very popular and by having bigger bands (Such as All Time Low) attatched to their label this gains the artist
- 2. more fans as fans of one of these larger artists will mostly like the smaller artists music too as they will be from similar genres. This also helps the smaller artists to gain confidence in the record label.