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# Why Musicians Need a Team to Succeed: Avoid Career Sabotage
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/why-musicians-need-a-team-to-succeed-avoid-career-sabotage/
- Published: 2024-08-07T15:36:44.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-07T15:36:54.000Z
- Description: Musicians need a team to succeed, but too often, the artists themselves or their immediate team sabotage their careers.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

Musicians need a [team](https://www.hypebot.com/how-street-teams-have-evolved-and-why-you-still-need-one/) to succeed, but too often, the artists themselves or their immediate team sabotage their careers.

Be careful about pointing fingers at everyone else for failure.

Just because you are the boss doesn’t mean you are the expert. A true leader surrounds themselves with people who are experts in areas they are not.

They listen and take advice; ultimately, they will look better because of those [supporting them](https://www.hypebot.com/group-music-listening-improves-with-stationhead-upgrade-rythm-relaunch/).

Michael Brandvold and [Jay Gilbert](https://www.hypebot.com/how-to-plan-your-next-release-2024/) dig into how musicians need a team to succeed and how they can captain rather than sabotage their future on a new [Music Biz Weekly Podcast](https://www.facebook.com/musicbizweekly/).

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