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Indie Artists, Labels and Managers
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Who is part of a recording team and why is it important? Music production includes songwriting, arranging, recording, mixing, mastering or anything in between, it can probably be described as music pr...
Music publishing is the act of owning, managing, exploiting, and protecting the rights of intellectual property in music, ensuring the songwriter and composer of a song gets paid for their music when ...
Record labels require a lot of capital. The label needs money to do the heavy lifting it takes to develop and break an artist. This includes funding to produce and record music, marketing and promot...
Soundcloud is now paying Artists directly
SoundCloud, has helped to kick-start the careers of many previously unknown artists. The open audio platform once started as a website for upcoming artists...
SEO and the Indie Artist
There is lots of competition in the Indie Artist market. Anyone today, can create a song in a home studio, and put it out. 40,000 songs are being uploaded each day to Spoti...
How to approach investors
Need an investor for your music project, how do you Pitch them? All artists would like someone to believe in their music and to be willing to invest money in them. How do y...
Alot of independent artists are "struggling". They spend their time, energy, and creativity making music but not profiting from their work. Artists work hard writing and recording music, making vide...