Following on from previous post here What exactly is the “X factor?” Do you have “it”? You hear professionals in the music industry referring to it, but you rarely hear “it” defined. If you are an aspiring music artist and want to make real money from your music or develop your music career into a [...]
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Todays success of Rage Against the Machine beating X factors Joe and preventing the usual Simon Cowell controlled Christmas No 1 here in the UK is a welcome change for many. We need it! Change can be a good thing for all sorts of reasons. You will have noticed some serious changes going on around [...]
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Obviously you’ve heard the expression, two heads are better than one. When it comes to song writing, this can also be true. History has plenty of examples of successful song writing teams or collaborators we could refer to. Most modern pop music or chart hits are the result of co-writes…sometimes two writers are involved, sometimes [...]
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Today SellaBand launch a new music biz model that will open up Fan Funding to the entire music industry. A major artist, considered one of the most influential artists by many in the industry is joining SellaBand shortly and will use the model to fund their next album project. They are one of the many [...]
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It’s fair to say that songwriters are better off spending their time being creative – writing songs! The person, as they say, that ‘takes care of business’ is the Music Publisher. The main role of a modern publisher is collecting royalties from national royalty systems around the globe on behalf of writers and themselves. Publishing [...]
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