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Artists, Get Ready for Spotify Wrapped 2024!

Spotify Wrapped is one of the biggest music moments of the year, and it’s your chance to connect with fans in a personal and creative way! If you have access to Spotify Clips, you can create a short v...

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5 Questions To Ask Before Choosing A Digital Distributor

A little over 10 years ago, as the way fans consumed music shifted to the digital forefront, iTunes and Amazon ruled. Eventually, if an independent artist fr...

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Some Tips For Working Your Publicity

The job of a music publicist is to create a database of contacts within the entertainment industry, and determine which magazines, newspapers, fanzines, as w...

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How Original is Your Music?...Really?

If you’ve ever attended a music business conference and walked into a Demo Listening Session, you may have encountered this: a panel of A&R Reps from major a...

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'Grunt Work' is What Building Your Career is All About

Working with musicians of all status on a daily basis has taught me a thing or two about the road to stardom and it’s my job to replace your misconceptions a...

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Questions You Should Be Able To Answer About Yourself or Your Band?

The day to day business of music distribution has inadvertently brought to my attention the clueless nature of most artistes.  In this article is an in depth...

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There Are No 10 Steps To Stardom

I have been watching, studying, and analyzing why some people ‘make it’ and others don’t for a long time, and I have given up trying to discover some magic f...

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16 Timeless Music Business Self Promotion Tips

The following tips are essential, life-long suggestions, for any and all musicians to remember as they establish and/or maintain their music careers.

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Be Sure You Have Enough Money to Record and Promote Your Music

Many musicians have finally wised up to the idea that they must do more to further their careers than just record a few demos and send them out randomly to a...

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10th and LAST "Reality Sandwich": Ignorant Musicians Finish Last

Ignorant, mis-informed musicians are a menace to themselves.

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9th "Reality Sandwich: How Do You Know If People Know What They're Talking About?

Don’t Take Advice From Anyone Unless You KNOW That They Know What They Are Talking About.

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8th "Reality Sandwich": Finding A Manager Ain't As Easy As You Think

Choosing A Manager Ain't So Easy

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7th "Reality Sandwich": Got An Entertainment Law Attorney?

The business of getting signed to any deal in the music business has always had, has now, and will always have, the involvement of entertainment law attorneys.

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6th "Reality Sandwich": Know The Labels and The Music Publishers You Want To Work With

If you were applying for a job with a certain company of corporation, wouldn’t you take some time to ask questions about their stability as a business, their...

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5th "Reality Sandwich": Design Simple But Effective Promo Materials

Simple, but effective promo materials can draw people to your music!

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4th Reality Sandwich: Register Your Copyrighted Songs

When you write a song and "fix" it "in a tangible form", i.e. write it down somewhere or record it even in a simple way, your song is at that moment protecte...

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3rd "Reality Sandwich" To Chomp On

BE A MASTER MUSICIAN ON YOUR INSTRUMENT

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2nd "REALITY SANDWICH": PLAY OFTEN NO MATTER WHAT

Play Live Often and Don’t Worry About Getting Paid For Every Gig.

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FIRST SANDWICH: MAKE MUSIC THAT DOESN’T SUCK!

For the next few Blog Postings I will feed you a daily 'Reality Sandwich' to chew on.

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10 Tips For Developing Musicians

If you think your music is ‘good’....then just keep it as a hobby. The music marketplace doesn’t need more ‘good’ music, it needs truly GREAT music, which is...

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Vevo vs YouTube

Vevo previously VEVO from 2009 to 2013 and vevo from 2013 to 2016 is a multinational video hosting service founded as a joint venture between the world's two...

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iTunes 101: Important things to know about selling your music on iTunes

What is iTunes ? It is used to play, download, and organize digital audio and video (as well as other types of media available on the iTunes Store ) on personal computers running the OS X and Microsof...

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