I saw in the news a while back that some YouTube star got busted for pretending to be independent while she had been signed by a major label all along.
Just noticed this other girl - 17 year old girl has an unreal voice, but also tours Japan, has great recordings and amazing video quality for someone who is "unsigned" according to her Facebook page (that has a whopping 400,000 likes btw)
https://www.facebook.com/MeganNicoleSite?sk=info
Even WORSE is I'm almost positive
she's signed to Universal. If you look at her site, she has TONS of covers there as well as her YouTube page.
megannicolesite's Channel - YouTube And her site is extremely professional by the way.
Megan Nicole Music | Official Site — Singer / Songwriter
SO I looked up about 10 of the artists (on wikipedia) that she covers and
ALL of them are either signed on a label owned by Universal, or on a label like Hollywood (owned by Disney) that is distributed by Universal.
BUSTED! How often does this happen???