Home is a place from which you can draw strength.
Knowing how to market yourself and your press materials is key.
As a new artist you should ignore trends at all costs.
Pressure is high and jobs are at stake. There is nothing wrong with having commercial music to pitch for those situations, as well as for ad campaigns.
Music is cyclical and as an artist and songwriter, you need to be able to predict what trend is coming next.
In Europe, radio stations are owned by a variety of different entities, so there is less uniformity on radio programming and more opportunity for artists to get radio play and break overseas.