Draft:Independent Artist

An Independent Artist, is an artist who gains recognition for songs or releases with the help of a major record label. Indie Artists generally produce their own music, write there own songs and do everything Music related. There are around 9.5 million indie artists in the world, and hundreds of Music distribution that support independent artists. In 2019 Jvke's single Golden Hour was signed to AWAL music, which is a distributer that supports independent or indie artists, through JVKE's success he still decided to remain independent Indipendent artists are usually artists that tend to be teenagers who produce music without the help of a major Record label Good examples of Artists would be Gavin Magnus, Cocco Quinn, Jvke, The Veronicas, Chance the Rapper and Phil Wickham along with millions of other artists.

History
Independent Music started in the early 1990's, it was originally founded by Buzzcocks during that time. As of 1995 multiple Genre's of indie music began to rise. The Independent record label for Christian Music, ForeFront Records was founded in 1887 and served multiple independent successful artists such as DC Talk and Audio Adrenaline For modern alternative pop, record labels like Big Noise Music Group, LLC or Liberation records in Australia.