Share In Urban music most new artists want that “Hot” feature on their record. That is all well and fine, but let’s start with the basics of getting the single ready for the feature. If you have taken the time to produce and write a hit song on your own, then a feature should only [...]
Posted by Nick on Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Filed under Artist Tips, Ask An Expert, Documents, Featured, IndustryWorks, Keys to Success, Licensing, Monetize Music, Paperwork/Contracts, Publishing · Tagged artist feature, copyrights, feature, feature rights, gucci mane, lil wayne, major artist feature, major feature, Marketing, mix, mixtape feature, money, music, performance rights organization, pro, produce, Publishing, record administration, record company waiver of liability, release rights, rights, session, side artist agreement, single, song split sheet, split sheet, split sheets, splits, stars, verse
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, [...]
Posted by Nick on Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Filed under Artist Tips, Basics, Conference Networking, DJ Coalitions, DJs, Distribution, Email Marketing, Event Marketing, Facebook, Featured, Industry Events, Industry News, Keys to Success, Licensing, Marketing, Media, Monetize Music, Myspace, Networking, News, Online Marketing, Publishing, Radio Marketing, Social Bookmarking, Social Bookmarking, Social Networks, Twitter, Web 2.0, Websites, Youtube, major labels, radio · Tagged all hip hop, blogs, coast 2 coast convention, convention, datpiff, fl, hiphopdx, hiphopgame, hot 97, hot97 nyc, istandard producers, jive records, magazines, Marketing, media partners, miami, music dealers, music industry, music industry convention, music monetization, mystudio.net, myxer, new media, new music industry, panelists, production tips, promotion
Share DJ Coalitions have always been a staple of the music industry, mostly for behind the scenes. A record literally can NOT be broken to major airplay without the assistance of the DJs and by association, the DJ coalitions. In today’s industry, the DJ is ever more important as a fragmented industry has to be [...]
Posted by Nick on Monday, July 5, 2010 at 7:55 pm
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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 [...]
Posted by rhythmj on Friday, May 14, 2010 at 11:40 am
Filed under ASCAP Guru, Artist Tips, Basics, Featured, Keys to Success, Licensing, Monetize Music, Publishing · Tagged ascap, ascap expo, ASCAP Guru, bmi, clear sample, cleared samples, co writer, copyright, copyrights, copywritten, foreign pro society, member, music publisher, music publishing, performing rights organization, pro, producer, promotional use, Publishing, register, rhythm j, samples, sesac, songwriter, title registration, writing
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 [...]
Posted by Nick on Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Filed under ASCAP Guru, Artist Tips, Basics, Featured, Monetize Music, Publishing · Tagged ascap, ascap royalties, copyright, copyrights, cue sheets, member, music, publisher, publishers, Publishing, quincy jones, radio play, royalties, songwriters, title registration, tv play, writers, writing
Share There has been a recent influx of businesses that are using online services to create legally binding agreements with clients. Not only is this easier and simpler for me, it is much easier on the company to both get the contract out as well as signed by both parties. I have used two of [...]
Posted by Nick on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Filed under Business Tools, Documents, Featured, Licensing, Publishing · Tagged agreements, business, businesses, company, contracts, Documents, docusign, echosign, independent contractors, invoice, legal, legally binding, Licensing, online solution, proposals, Publishing, quotes, sales, signature, signatures
Share What’s up music self educators? You are making this industry better each day you learn something. Previously on my last ASCAP Guru Session, we touched upon the importance of publishing and why EVERY songwriter, whether they are signed or not signed to a publishing deal, should have both a writing and publishing account with [...]
Posted by rhythmj on Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Filed under ASCAP Guru, Artist Tips, Featured, Keys to Success, Monetize Music, Publishing · Tagged ascap, ascap expo, money, producer, publisher, Publishing, publishing deal, rhythm j, self publishing, songwriter, songwriters, writing
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 [...]
Posted by rhythmj on Friday, January 22, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Filed under Artist Tips, Ask An Expert, Basics, Monetize Music, Publishing · Tagged ascap, attorneys, bmi, DJs, industry, internet, managers, money, music, musicians, performing rights organizations, pro, producers, Publishing, radio, ringtones, royalties, royalty, sesac, tv, urban music, writing
Share Synchronization royalties (‘synch licenses’) are paid for the use of copyrighted music in audiovisual productions, such as in DVDs, television, movies, commercial, and advertisements. Music used in news tracks are also synch licenses. Synchronization can extend to live media performances, such as plays and live theatre. They become extremely important for new media – [...]
Posted by Smilow on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Filed under Artist Tips, Ask An Expert, Featured, Keys to Success, Licensing, Media, Monetize Music, Publishing · Tagged advertisements, audiovisual, background music, commercials, copyrights, csi, dvds, er, film, heroes, jay leno, karaoke, license, Licensing, movies, music, music royalties, nbc, publishers, Publishing, royalties, songwriters, streaming, synch licenses, synchronization, synchronization royalties, television, the apprentice, theatre, webcasts
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 [...]
Posted by Smilow on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Filed under Artist Tips, Ask An Expert, Basics, Documents, Featured, Keys to Success, Monetize Music, Publishing · Tagged composer, music publisher, producers, publisher, Publishing, publishing company, publishing split sheets, songwriters, split sheets
