The links below are in general to PDF documents (articles abstracted from external websites and presented in PDF document format for convenience)
- Business Expansion Scheme (Ireland)
- Before self-releasing music: five questions to ask
- Co-writing songs: why it can be helpful
- Co-writing songs: take care of business first
- Could 2021 be a boom year for the music industry?
- Dealing professionally with business professionals
- Digital distribution options (Ari Herstand)
- Disc Makers Blog – short useful articles about the business side of music
- Fifteen things you must do to make it in the music industry
- Five important things record labels look for
- Four tasks of every songwriter
- Getting your lucky break too early (avoid dodgy label deals)
- Going full-time as a musician: how do you know the time is right?
- Hiring a producer: the various costs
- Hit songs – how much does it cost to generate a hit?
- Hitting the jackpot with songwriting
- How CDs and downloads died
- How music works (business info from David Byrne of Talking Heads)
- How to ruin your music career in ten easy steps
- Music licensing (Audiosocket – commercial licensing service)
- Music licensing (Broadjam – commercial licensing service)
- Music licensing: what makes music “licensable”?
- Music licensing: how to get your songs into music libraries
- Music licensing: the co-publishing approach
- Music licensing – 9 questions to ask to ensure a great licensing partnership
- Music trends in 2018 (Disc Makers)
- Networking in the music industry – seven tips
- Patreon – a new release strategy for a new economy
- More information about Patreon
- Short video about Patreon (Ted Talk)
- Playlists – the evolution of third party playlisting
- Releasing a record independently – technical issues
- Retaining your sound recording “master rights” is smart business
- Song contests and competitions
- Song sharks
- Song sharks: when someone asks you for money (ISA article)
- Songwriting collaborators (partnerships)
- Songwriting credits – being fair about who wrote what
- Songwriting credits – sharing the credit
- Songwriting Partnership Agreement (suggested model)
- Spotify: who compiles Spotify playlists?
- Setting up an independent record label
- Start your own digital label
- Sync income from television
- Swedish Pop Mafia: How the greatest engine of pop music in the world was created
- The $150,000 Music Degree – excellent free music guide by Rick Barker & Wade Sutton*
- Touring: counting the cost (Venues demanding a share of merchandise sales)
- Touring: counting the cost – the depressing finances
- Touring: the house concert alternative
- USB Drives – is it time to sell your music on USB drives?
- ‘When you’re in the music business, you’re in the technology business’
- Work for hire agreements (also known as singer/musician release forms)
- Writing a vision statement
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