Share Coast 2 Coast New Music Industry Convention Announced for August 27th-29th in Miami, FL Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes & Magazine announce the 2nd Annual Coast 2 Coast Convention to take place in Miami, FL August 27th-29th. The conference will be attended by a large list of music industry guests and sponsors such as iStandardProducers.com, [...]

Share What’s up to the seekers of knowledge (Guru Gong here)! It’s been a while what I’m back with more ASCAP info.  I noticed some of the questions on the comments of past articles and tried to answer some here. Before reading this particular ASCAP Guru session, I recommend reading Guru Session #3 “The 9 [...]

Share Welcome back ASCAP members and future ASCAP members.  Now that we have Writing and publishing out of the way (See Guru Sessions #1 and #2) we can focus on what gets us money n the first place… The MUSIC! TITLE REGISTRATION Probably the #1 reason why music makers don’t make any ASCAP royalties even [...]

Share We now talk about what is needed to promote to these types of stations. MAILING: Although mailing your CD to stations is not considered “promotion” in-and-of itself (promotion requires phone calls), it nevertheless must be done, and when doing it is recommended that you do your own mailing instead of using a mailing service [...]

Share The Stations No conversation about music marketing would be complete without the word RADIO rearing its ugly head time and time again. Few songs sell well at retail without it. None sell millions without it. You’ve got your CDs manufactured…now what can YOU do about it? Radio is one of the MASS MEDIA that [...]

Share What’s up to all the heavy grinders, hard working, and struggling artists, producers, musicians, managers, and DJs!  Many of you may know me from my production, or my work with the iStandard Producer Showcase / istandardproducers.com; however, I still get a surprising reaction when mentioning my involvement with ASCAP.  Once someone finds out I [...]

Share In the world of music rights and commercial or in-public music use, there are a lot of terms and expressions that may be confusing to non-musicians. In fact, some of these are confusing even to musicians. In this article I will try to explain some of these terms and what they mean. Copyright Free [...]

Share So after this four part series about publishing, I figured that maybe I needed to actually to back track with all the technical stuff and go back to basics and look at filling out a basic publishing split sheet.  I can not explain the importance of filling out publishing split sheets.  I am going [...]

Share Starting your own publishing company is actually not that hard.  You as a songwriter may truly benefit from setting up your “own” publishing company because not only will you be able show off your own catalog of songs you’ve written – but also you may exploit songs of other writers that you acquire material [...]

Share In the United States, “performance royalties” are paid out mainly by three performance rights societies, BMI, ASCAP and SESAC. (Most foreign countries also have their own societies.) Under the copyright law, a songwriter controls the public performance of that songwriter’s songs. In essence, a songwriter designates either BMI, ASCAP or SESAC as his or [...]