What Every Songwriter Needs To Know About The Music Licensing Collective
A major component of the recently passed Music Modernization Act is a new entity known as the Music Licensing Collective (or MLC), designed to manage blanket licensing, gather money from. Continue reading
Music Think Tank Weekly Recap: Nostalgia • Staying Healthy On Tour • Making The Industry Safer For Women • More
This week on MusicThinkTank, our contributors shared articles on how music engages the brain to evoke nostalgia, what musicians can do to stay healthy on the road, how the music. Continue reading
Collect All The Revenue Your Recorded Music Can Earn: Pt. I
For a long time, many traditional music industry revenue sources were closed off to the independent artists, but these channels are starting to open up, providing some exciting new income. Continue reading
When We Sleep Where Do Our Royalties Go? [VIDEO]
Despite numerous advancements in payment tech, it can still take ages for songwriters to see a penny of their earned revenue, and so AWAL, AMRA and Kobalt are teaming up. Continue reading
What Is It That Makes A Song Catchy?
Sleuthing out what it is that makes a song "catchy" has been a goal of songwriters since time immemorial. Here Hunter Farris meshes the worlds of music theory and psychology. Continue reading
10 Best Cities For Full-Time Songwriters Worldwide
Brett Newski travels the world as an independent musician and teaches others how to do the same. Here Brett shares the best cities for full-time songwriters to live and work. Continue reading
Measuring Music’s Timelessness: A Tricky Business
Whether expressed or not, a latent goal of most musicians is to create music that endures, and hopefully has life beyond its creator. But just how does one measure music's. Continue reading
Live Show Set List Submission: Are You Getting All Your Royalty Money?
As a songwriter, having your songs performed in public presents an opportunity for you to collect royalty money, a valuable source of income. But how can you be sure you're. Continue reading
How To Unlock Dozens Of Revenue Streams From A Single Song
In this piece, the people at Disc Makers break down the multitude of ways in which artists can earn revenue from just a single song, via the fans and musicians. Continue reading
