The music industry

This section aims to cover the inside-track of the music industry: Careers in music, music copyright, how to break into the music industry and other miscellaneous insider information that might be useful for you fame-thirsty musicians... gawd help ya!

Ideas, tips or stories of breaking into the music industry?

Then share it with us... we want to know!


 
Submitted by thewhippinpost on Sun, 13/05/2007 - 18:48.

"90 per cent. of musicians are not millionaires—they earn about £15,000 a year from their royalties."
Michael Connarty - Labour MP, Falkirk East.

40,000 musicians and 3,500 record labels (that number seems large to me) have apparently signed a petition to increase the length of time copyright exists on their art... and by extension, of course, the duration royalties are paid.


Submitted by thewhippinpost on Mon, 29/01/2007 - 15:17.

I'm glad I found this - I read it a while back but lost the URL - If you're seriously looking to get signed to a label, then you owe it to yourself to read carefully.

These A&R guys are not allowed to write contracts. What they do is present the band with a letter of intent, or "deal memo," which loosely states some terms, and affirms that the band will sign with the label once a contract has been agreed on. The spookiest thing about this harmless sounding little memo, is that it is, for all legal purposes, a binding document.


The Music Industry Landscape Today

The music industry timebomb is ticking  Let's first look at the recent numbers to come out (in chronological order)...


Submitted by thewhippinpost on Fri, 12/01/2007 - 05:17.

Your Record Label - Help? Or Hindrance?

Signing your record contract If you're a record company executive, the future doesn't appear to be looking too great at the moment. More appropriately (perhaps), if you're an aspiring up-and-coming artist looking to be signed to a record label that still doggedly holds onto the Digital Rights Management (DRM) principal of distributing your digital music, then you might want to hold-out for a little while longer before signing that tempting deal.


Submitted by thewhippinpost on Wed, 06/12/2006 - 19:34.

Podcasting, in case you didn't know, is now experiencing explosive growth across the internet... and where there's entertainment, there's cash!

I used to make jingles for two or three online radio shows a few years back but it was more for fun than anything else. However, over the last few months or so I've been getting enquiries - completely out-of-the-blue - from people who remembered I used to do it back in the day. These people are either in the process of starting their own podcasts, or have begun already and realise they need some flash-whizz-bang intro with their show-ident thrown-in.


Struggling for ideas on how to enter the music industry? Think laterally! That's what Chef Jeff and partners did when they launched AdultIndustryMusic.com - yes, music for porn movies!

Read exactly how they got started including the costs, equipment and recording processes involved.


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