Posts belonging to Category 'Music Business'

The 3 P’s to Breaking Into the Music Industry

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Don’t listen to another one of those so called music industry insiders until you read this article.I’m so sick and tired of these wannabes leaching off of talented people with real dreams of making it in the music industry. Have you heard some of the lies they tell you like, if [...]

Starting a Record Label

So you’re ready to start getting down to the business of music, but you’re slowly starting to realize something awful: you don’t know the first thing about making it in the music business. After all, you’re a musician, not a record exec. But what kind of impact will it have on your career as a [...]

Make Money Singing

You’ve been thinking about it for a while, but you’re just not sure how much time, money and emotional expense you want to invest in your singing career. You’re sure you’ve got the talent or you wouldn’t even be deliberating the opportunity, but still the question remains. With so many so called “experts” all willing [...]

6 Rules Of Commercial Music Success

Over the years I have had many conversations with music artists about commercial music, which usually leads to them disclosing their disdain and hatred of it. Some refer to Pop music (Pop, as in what’s popular now) as commercial music.
Others think of anything that is receiving heavy rotation on radio as commercial music. Whatever their [...]

What to Look for in Royalty Free Music

Purchasing music for use as production music for film, television and video projects, or as background music for different projects and companies as well as music on-hold for personal and professional telephone systems can be a time-consuming and very expensive endeavor. Because many businesses do not have the money to spend on on-going music royalties, [...]

How Do You Get There When You Don’t Know What THERE Is?

So you want to be a multi-platinum selling rock star making millions. Woo hoo! Great goal! But these days DIY (You-It-Yourself) has become mainstream, a way of life for many independent artists. So those dreams of getting signed to a major label are so far beyond the horizon it is really not an option anymore. [...]

The Internet and the Music Industry

photo credit: Irish Philadelphia Photo EssaysThe internet, as everyone knows, has revolutionized the music business. The ease of downloading music and file-sharing has caused the industry to adjust in ways few could have imagined not long ago.
At first, the music industry was hit hard by the first file-sharing programs that allowed fans to download [...]

Is The Music Business Eating Itself Alive?

Much debate has risen over the years between music industry moguls and music connoisseurs about the decline in records sales and quality of music. On one side the music industry claims that downloading music has caused a decline in record sales. While music enthusiasts claim that it’s the continuous release of mediocre music that is [...]

Music Industry Career Primer – From Songwriting and Producing to Mixing

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With all of the reality shows on television today, everyone wants to be the next big music star. You would think that singing was the only job in the music industry. It is the one job that is out in the forefront, but it is not the only job in the [...]

The Digital DJ Licence

In a world which has gone completely mad, and a country which already forces it’s mortals to pay twice for the same thing, the powers that be at PPL have put their collective heads together and decided to get a piece of the action. Somebody somewhere woke up one morning and thought ‘Hey, how can [...]