Cracking the music industry isn’t the easiest of tasks – combatting stakeholders, fickle audiences and a constantly shifting landscape make for difficult terrain to navigate.

Good Charlotte and Sleeping With Sirens have both carved their respective paths in the alternative music worlds, with both acts dominating their fields in pop punk and alt-rock, gaining legions of fans and the respect of their peers in the process – it’s fair to say they’ve got their fair share of advice to give on how to make the system work for you.

Watch Nick Martin and Billy Martin of the bands share when they new music was a career, and how they’ve maintained their climbs since.

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