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Buy Your Own Damn Music: Read An Excerpt From Hack Your Hit(0)
The following is an excerpt from Jay Frank’s Hack Your Hit: Free and Cheap Marketing Tips For Musicians, available January 31. Frank is also the author of Futurehit.DNA, and the Owner and CEO of DigSin, a music company which provides its subscribers with free music. Before creating DigSin, Frank served as the Senior Vice President of [...]
Report: SoundExchange Doled Out $292 Million In Royalties In 2011
SoundExchange, a non-profit performance rights group that collects royalties from various hosts for streaming sound recordings, reported last quarter as their most successful yet. During the fourth quarter of 2011, more than 18,000 payments by satellite radio, Internet radio, and cable television music channels equaled out to a distribution of $89.5 million. As a record-breaking [...]
Getting Your Music Licensed: A Q&A with Sarah Gavigan
Sarah Gavigan is a music licensing consultant who has placed thousands of indie and unsigned artists to television commercials over the course of her 20-year career. She has also worked as a talent agent, and taught music licensing at UCLA. Gavigan currently leads interactive music licensing workshops through her online educational community GetYourMusicLicensed.com. We caught [...]
Independent, Artist-Owned Labels Surge
Update (1/9/12): Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon is launching his own label, Chigliak Records. As the presence of major labels has begun to dwindle, a surge in independent, artist-owned labels and publishing houses has taken place to fill in the missing piece still needed to fulfill the many tasks and operations involved in releasing a record. [...]
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