The Music Business for Music Creators: Industry Mechanics for Contemporary Creators

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Part 1 : Song and Recording Copyrights
1. Understanding Copyright
2. What are Master Rights?
3. Song Splits
Part 2 : Music Industry Structures and Roles
4. What is Music Publishing?
5. The Role of a Record Company
6. Artist and Labels Services
7. What Do Artists Managers Do?
8. What Do Music Lawyers do?
9. What Do Accountants Do?
10. Understanding the Live Sector
Part 3 : Being a Recording Artist
11. Artist Development: The Rarely Spoken Truths of Self Discovery
12. Being in a Band
13. The Art of Negotiation
14. Rights Management and Collection Societies
15. Song and Recording Registration
Part 4 : Releasing Music
16. Releasing Music without a Record Company
17. Ten Key Steps When Releasing Music
18. Writing a Press Release
19. Understanding Digital Distribution
20. Releasing Cover Songs and Remixes
21. Costing and Budgeting for Artists Releasing Music
22. Understanding Growth on Streaming Platforms
23. The Algorithmic Scaffold of Spotify and its Playlists
24. Pitching For Playlists
25. Sonic Virality: When the Listeners Speak
26. Ten Tips for Gaining Growth on Audio Streaming Platforms
27. Sampling and Being Sampled: The Culture of Permission
Part 5 : An Exploration of Income Streams for Music Creators
28. Paths of Profit for Music Creators
29. Working For Hire
30. The Self-Recording Musician
31. The Sync Business
32. Artist Merchandise
33. Funding Opportunities
34. A Guide to Building a Portfolio Career: Understanding the Gig Economy
35. Reaching out to Music Industry Professionals
36. Songwriters Pitching Songs to Recording Artists
37. Expected Standards of Song Presentation
38. Production Music and Media Composers
39. The Importance of Metadata
Part 6 : The Future of The Business
40. The Global Marketplace
41. Artificial Intelligence in Creativity and Analytics
42. Mental Health Awareness: A Creators’ Understanding of Self-Care
43. Beyond The Horizon: Exploring the Future of the Music Business
44. Your Future

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The Music Business for Music Creators is a roadmap to understanding the traditional and emerging income streams that define the modern music industry. It presents the key concepts and principles that underpin the business, with an emphasis on educating and empowering the next generation of music creators to build a career from their creative pursuits.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the mechanics of the music business, from music publishing, marketing and contract negotiation to licensing, streaming and performing. This accessible guide is written with music creators in mind and features case studies, profiles and interviews with established professionals, as well as a glossary of key terms to empower the reader in their understanding of the industry, alongside a number of useful accompanying digital resources.

This book is core reading for students of music business and music creation in contemporary music education, and an essential resource for those on music, music production and music performance courses, as well as aspiring and early career professionals.

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