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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I had one of those emails just the other day, you know the ones. I thought I recognised the contact details but the subject matter made no sense to me whatsoever. On closer inspection I realised it was from a VP at Sony who I had not been in contact with for probably three years! [...]
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For those of you into music production or just starting out and having not yet entered the magical software wonderland of GarageBand, Cubase, Logic or even Pro Tools, I have a little something here of interest. Digimix is a small company that creates browser-based audio editing software. In early March 09 Aviary announced that it [...]
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You may already be aware of the ‘Slicethepie’ platform for financing recording artists. However a new partnership deal with ‘Bebo’ will enable the Bebo community to take on the A&R role, earn money reviewing tracks, spot new talent and help finance the artists next project. In return for the investment fans get artist access, [...]
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