Internet pornography mogul “Pornhub” has announced that they will be creating their own record label creatively named “Pornhub Records.” There is no clear direction of what type of music this label will cover, and much like a kid with his prom date, we don’t want come to conclusions prematurely.
Pornhub penetrated the music industry on the 24th of September with an exclusive announcement from Billboard. Just to add a little flavor to this announcement, Pornhub has created a contest to create the official theme music for Pornhub. The winner of the contest will be given $5,000 for a music video which will be premiered on the website’s home page. If you don’t think that is great, think of this: Pornhub averages around 40,000,000 hits on its website per day. Most of them from our senior editor Nick Cannata-Bowman. They claim to guarantee around half a million views on your music video alone. But with numbers like this, it’s very conceivable to see that number go much higher. You can enter the contest if you want by following this link.
“We’re looking for acts that aren’t necessarily porn-focused. We’re an ad-based network looking for content that appeals to our demographic. Mature lyrics for an adult audience; no boy bands or teen-pop, for instance.” –Corey Price, VP of Pornhub
People are creating record labels like it is going out of style, but this one caught our attention like a warm shot to the face. It’s not everyday that you hear of a record label being started by a porn mogul or any pornography outfit of this size. Pornhub isn’t a stranger to music though. There have been many instances of artists uploading their raunchy (at times, even tame) music videos on the website. Coolio just released a single called Take It To The Hub which was in fact commissioned by Pornhub. We’re sure we can expect some 12 inch bangers from this label.
What seemingly unrelated industry would you like to see start a record label? What would the names of the bands they’d sign be?
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