16 September 2005

Several years ago radio legend Nick Erby created a record company called NFS (not for sale).

For those not in the music business each month NFS release an album with usually 20 tracks and this is distributed to radio stations and the media in general. The album covers the latest single release’s from a variety of country artists, but this service is used by Independent artists as a means of getting their work into the market place. Several years ago the business was taken over by Mike Smith and has gone from strength to strength. Why am I telling you this?

Well this month will see the release of album # 100 a milestone for the industry and I would like to had my congratulations to Mike Smith and of course Nick Erby for providing this service especially to Independent artists. Over the years Mike has provided valuable assistance to Independent and emerging artists and through this assistance they have gone on to bigger and better things.

When you tune into to your local country music radio station in Australia you won’t be listening for too long before hearing a track from an NFS record.

Once again congratulations and a job well done Mike and of course Nick and may this valuable service to our industry continues for another 100 editions.