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Anyone managing an artist's career needs to be well versed and have a savvy understanding of the moving parts of the music business. Learn how and why those moving parts "move," as well as how to manage and navigate a music-based career.

An easy guide to understanding the basics of Spotify, playlisting, and making money on streaming platforms, covering topics like utilizing Spotify for artists, choosing a digital distributor, Spotify best practices, the different types of playlists, the anatomy of a release, pitching music to playlists, marketing and promoting your new releases, managing royalties from streaming, and more. Also includes frequently asked questions, additional resources, bonus content, a glossary, and bonus tools to help you build an effective Spotify strategy for your record label!

Derek Sivers was a professional musician before he started a music distribution company that helped 150,000 musicians sell their music to over four million people. So after years of living the problems, he was able to learn the solutions.

Secrets of the Music Business: How Not to Get F--ked as an Entrepreneur with a Dream is an informative how-to book about bringing your dreams to fruition. Tony M. Fountain, a.k.a. TMF Precha, founder and EIC of Now Entertainment, walks you through the entertainment industry's ins-and-outs, what to do and what not to, sharing secrets of success. He reveals where to spend your money in start-up costs and how to avoid being scammed by snakes. This book doesn't waste your time with the basic information you'll find performing a quick web search.

Sync Licensing for Record Labels is a quick and dirty guide to navigating the intricate world of sync and music licensing, covering topics like preparing your audio files, the different types of sync royalties, finding unique licensing opportunities, learning what songs are hard to get licensed, understanding performance rights organizations, and building a music network. It also includes frequently asked questions, additional resources, bonus content, and a glossary!

Streaming music has proven it is here to stay. Artists and their teams now find themselves with many new challenges in the digital landscape. With more options than ever for music distribution, standing out in a crowd, deciding where to focus your energy and finding ways to reach your audience become critical choices you and your team will have to make. Music business executive Mike Warner provides actionable advice, time-tested through more than 20 years in the music industry with proven results.

Before you start reaching out to labels, you have to get clear on what you want from a prospective deal. You also have to understand what partnering with a label can do for you - and what it can’t. That way, when you’re offered an opportunity you’ll be able to advance towards your dream from a truly informed place. If you’re offered a deal and what you want isn’t included - you’ll now know how to ask for it, or you’ll have the confidence to walk away. As the artist Manafest, Chris Greenwood has sold hundreds of thousands of albums and millions of singles worldwide.

Nick Duerden has spent many years interviewing the most famous musicians on the planet. Without exception, they are at their most interesting when they've peaked, and when they are on their way down. In many ways, this is when these former idols are at their most heroic, too, because they reveal themselves not only to be humane and sensitive, but also still driven to create, to fulfil their lingering dreams, to refuse to live quietly.

Many musical artists fail to utilize social media effectively, finding it confusing or overwhelming. They create a few posts, don’t see results, and immediately give up. But there are strategies to follow that have been tried and tested by musicians like you. These methods will help you get your name out there, monetize music, and find heights of success you never imagined. Music Business & Marketing Accelerator Using Instagram is a resource for any singer, songwriter, rapper, or producer who wants to make a splash on the internet.

This is a technical guide, a "how to" guerrilla manual to help independent artists, bands, and other creatives to maximize their sound, visuals, performance, and online presence, using livestream gigs. It is also a spiritual or metaphysical guide of sorts, since we rely heavily on channeling moods and feelings, using all of our senses, in mind, body and spirit. Such is the medium of music. I detail what it takes to perform with consistency, to show up regularly with amazing new content - all of which can be reposted with outstanding organic engagement.

This book is an honest, easy-to-understand book on royalties. It’s written for musicians and artists to help them better understand the basic mechanisms of the record industry, and how they can better their chances of letting music do what it should.

The Dark Side of Indie Survival is informative, entertaining, and a pleasure to listen to. In this book, I examined indie music's evolution and the differences between a record label artist and an independent artist. This book also examines the sometimes overwhelming challenges of an indie artist. The various emotional, professional, and marketing strategies that an artist may face by himself or herself are extensively discussed and analyzed.

The realities surrounding the music industry can be exciting, glamorous, and desirable, but also dark and destructive. In an environment where narcissistic behaviors thrive, a craving for power challenges personal leadership. Yet, it creates a platform that can change the world like no other. As a woman maneuvering the world of music, you may soon encounter unique needs at many levels.

Chris Greenwood is the man behind Manafest: the globally successful rock and rap musician who’s sold millions of singles and albums world-wide. With over 20 years experience in the industry, both as a signed artist and an independent musician, Chris shares his incredible experience as a song writer and hit-maker in this audiobook.

John Denver said, “I have a producer who looks like an accountant, and an accountant who looks like a producer”. Soberly dressed, unflashy, and a trained classical musician, in the golden age of the music business, Milt Okun stood out by not standing out. His legacy does that for him. He discovered and launched John Denver, and mentored him throughout his career. He created arrangements for Peter, Paul and Mary that the trio performed for half a century. He brought Placido Domingo a crossover career that made him an international star beyond the world of opera.

Mark Devlin is a long-standing DJ and music journalist. Musical Truth is the culmination of his five years of research into the true nature of the industry and its objectives - from dark occult rituals, to mind-controlled artists, and all points in between. The book shows how these agendas fit into the much wider picture of what’s really going on in the world, and - crucially - how the power lies with us to bring it to an end."

Would you have the patience and drive to change your mind state, music production techniques, and health habits to sustain this highly demanding way of life? This step-by-step guide to music composer lifestyle design teaches how J.T. went from a six-figure job in a Fortune 500 company to composing music full-time, almost doubling his revenues within the first two years; how to compose, sound, and live like the pros; how to monetize every second spent in front of your equipment, making sounds and songs; and more.

Indie Survival is a new, acclaimed handbook for independent music artists and musicians looking to record, write, and promote without a label. More indie artists are recording, distributing, marketing, and selling their own music now than ever before in history. Indie Survival is the critically acclaimed, do-it-yourself modern classic that has been telling them how for years.

The Pen Game Portfolio is a handbook made specifically for independent musicians ready to learn the business of music and earn more money from your talent. From music publishing, royalty collection, the world of sync licensing in TV and film, to offering valuable services to other artists - you'll be equipped to turn your talent into a full-scale business.

My real story starts with a disaster, an unmitigated, pull-the-rug-from-under-you, clean-out-the-bank-account disaster. But had it not happened, The Police would never have risen to become the biggest rock band in the world; Jools Holland would not have ended up on TV; The Bangles, The Go-Go’s, R.E.M., and many other music stars might never have made it either. It’s strange how a fluke, a disaster, an unlikely event can lead to incredible results. But that is in essence what happened to me....