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'If you want to know anything about how music surfaces today, how to find it, or how to create it, you will find what you need right here.' - Joseph Menn, Washington Post writer
'One of the best music books of the year' - Neil McCormick, Telegraph
For the first time in history, almost every song ever recorded is available instantly. Everywhere.
This book charts what music's dazzling digital revolution really means for fans and artists. As a former data guru at the world's biggest streaming service Spotify, Glenn McDonald reveals:
Having analysed the streams of 500 million people, McDonald explores what the data tells us about music and about ourselves, from the secrets of russelåter in Norway to Christmas in the Philippines.
This book will take you on a voyage of discovery through music's fast-flowing new waters. Includes 10 bonus playlists.
About the Author
Glenn McDonald obsessively collected CDs as a teenager, but he soon realised the revolutionary power of digital media to make songs globally accessible. He started working at a US startup and soon became a data guru at Spotify. His website Every Noise at Once is a computational map of the world's music genres.
An ideal book for anyone who wants to know how Spotify, Amazon Music, Deezer, YouTube Music and other music platforms work, whether as a fan, musician or music business insider.
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A close look at the lives of working musicians who aren't the center of their stage.
Secret (and not-so-secret) weapons, side-of-the-stagers, rhythm and horn sections, backup singers, accompanists--these and other band people are the anonymous but irreplaceable character actors of popular music. Through interviews and incisive cultural critique, writer and musician Franz Nicolay provides a portrait of the musical middle class. Artists talk frankly about their careers and attitudes toward their craft, work environment, and group dynamics, and shed light on how support musicians make sense of the weird combination of friend group, gang, small business consortium, long-term creative collaboration, and chosen family that constitutes a band. Is it more important to be a good hang or a virtuoso player? Do bands work best as democracies or autocracies? How do musicians with children balance their personal and professional lives? How much money is too little? And how does it feel to play on hundreds of records, with none released under your name? In exploring these and other questions, Band People gives voice to those who collaborate to create and dissects what it means to be a laborer in the culture industry.
The Insider's Guide to Making Money in the Music Busines is the industry bible and the ultimate guide to making money in the music business. Music is a business of money, contracts, decisions and making the most of every opportunity. To succeed - to make money - to have a career - you have to know what you are doing in both music and business.
This invaluable book tells you how the business works, what you must know to succeed, and how much money you can make in films, television, video games, ASCAP, BMI and SESAC, record sales, downloads and streams, advertising, ringtones and ringbacks, interactive toys and dolls, Broadway, new media, scoring contracts and synch licenses, music publishing, foreign countries and much more.
This indispensable reference is written by industry insiders Todd Brabec, Educator, Entertainment Law Attorney and former ASCAP Executive Vice President and Worldwide Director of Membership, and Jeff Brabec, Vice President of Business Affairs, Chrysalis Music Publishing.
The People and the Music: Country and Bluegrass, that is! is a first-hand look at how the music business has been conducted, and the people involved each day, on 16th & 17th Avenues South (now known as Music Row or Music Block) in Nashville, Tennessee. The People and the Music guides you on a journey through the evolution of how the music business has evolved, beginning in the 1960s through the present day.
Dive into the dynamic stories, with over 100 historical photographs of the people that worked on the Avenues: booking agents, songwriters, secretaries, engineers, wives, musicians, and the Musicians Union.
How to Make It in the New Music Business, since its first publication in 2016, has become the go-to resource for musicians eager to make a living in a turbulent industry. Widely adopted by ambitious individuals and music schools across the world and considered the best how-to book of its kind (Music Connection), this essential work has inspired tens of thousands of aspiring artists to stop waiting around for that big break and take matters into their own hands. In this highly anticipated new edition, Ari Herstand reveals how to build a profitable career with the many tools at our fingertips in the post-COVID era and beyond, from conquering social media and mastering the digital landscape to embracing authentic fan connection and simply learning how to persevere. This edition breaks down these phenomena and more, resulting in a timeless must-have for anyone hoping to navigate the increasingly complex yet advantageous landscape that is the modern music business.
How To Run an Indie Label tells you everything you need to know about how to be a creative force.
Music is like no other business. It's about being at the right place at the right time, following your nose and diving in feet first. It's about being plugged into the mystical electricity and about surfing on the wild energy. It's about how to fuck up and how to survive and be sustained by the holy grail of the high decibel. No-one captures this wild feral spirit better than Alan McGee whose helter skelter career through music has made him a major force. Wilder than his bands, more out of control than his most lunatic singer, more driven than his contemporaries and closer in spirit to the rock n roll star he could never be himself, McGee was always in a rush. Creation would sign people and not just the music. McGee understood that running an indie label is mainly about the charisma, the game changers, the iconography and the story. It's about never being boring. His ability to start a raw power ruckus brought the visceral danger back to a moribund mid-eighties music scene. His nose for danger and his ear for classic guitar rock n roll brought us Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, Teenage Fan Club and Ride before topping out in the nineties with the biggest band in the world, Oasis. By no means a conventional instruction manual or business book How To Run an Indie Label tells you everything you need to know about how to be a creative force.
If you've ever felt lost and worried about the future as an independent artist, you're not alone! In a rapidly evolving music industry, where AI and other advancements threaten to disrupt sustainability and growth, many artists fear losing opportunities and relevance.
In The Future-Proof Artist: Mastering the Five Staples of Industry Evolution, music industry veteran Ryan J. Bruce provides the roadmap every independent artist needs to navigate this uncertainty. Drawing from his extensive experience behind the scenes, Bruce outlines future-focused approaches for what he says are the five essential pillars of long-term success in music.
Rather than focusing on the challenges of today, this book delivers timeless strategies that have proven effective across centuries, ensuring your career remains resilient-no matter how the industry evolves. Whether the next wave is AI or another unforeseen change, The Future-Proof Artist equips you with the tools to not only adapt, but to thrive!
Garnering high praise, including stellar reviews from industry executives at companies representing top artists like The Weeknd, Megan Thee Stallion, and Max Martin, Bruce's unique perspective and actionable insights in this book make it an indispensable resource for any artist committed to building a sustainable and impactful career in the music industry.
The fascinating true story of the year in which everything changed in the music business.
This is the story of a year in which the record business appeared to be firing on all cylinders, when the CD was at its commercial zenith, bringing in staggering sums of money for the global record business. The good times - and they were phenomenal times, both culturally and financially - looked like they would never end for record labels.
Yet by December 1999, a bomb had been squarely set under their core business. All was to change with the arrival of digital music delivery.
Eamonn will tell the true story and not simply the oft-repeated tale of an industry complacent and caught napping.
Advice for Young Musicians offers practical guidance for navigating a long life in music. As a classical singer and faculty member of institutions such as the New England Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music, Ian Howell has prioritized providing realistic, compassionate, motivating, and actionable advice to aspiring performers for years. His approach to mentoring is grounded in practical economics and human motivation, a realistic view of the many layers of the music industry, and the unwavering call that musicians must grow into fully-formed, complex people as a result of their journey in music. If you are looking for tricks and tips to reach short-term goals, look elsewhere. If you want to understand patterns of behavior, how to respond to challenges, and the perspectives required to negotiate a life in music, this book is a must-read.
Laid out like a book of poems meant to be dipped in and out of, this book covers how careers unfold; how music, practice, and performance work; business, networking, and relationships; becoming who you are; necessary skills, behaviors, and outlooks; academia and education; and mentors and teachers.
A perfect gift for your students, for those at transitional points in their lives, or for the experienced performer or teacher trying to put their career into words. This is the book the author wished he had read when he started.
Advance Praise for Advice for Young Musicians: Ian Howell is challenging young musicians and their mentors to think deeply about their craft, the realities of their profession, self-discovery, and the very ethos of music-making. Karen Brunssen, Professor of Voice, Co-Chair of Music Performance, Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University In this contemplative book for musicians, Howell imparts lessons usually learned through hard knocks and graying hairs. Ruminate, muse, dwell, or decry - but ignore at your own risk. Kayla Gautereaux, Assistant Professor of Voice, Boston Conservatory at BerkleeAdvice for Young Musicians shines light on unspoken twists and turns in the journey towards your desired career in music. This is not just advice about being a better musician. Follow this advice to become the full person who makes the music. I wanted this book when I was 19 years old.
Josaphat Contreras, New York City-based tenor and Mariachi researcher
Music Business For Dummies explains the ins and outs of the music industry for artists and business people just starting out. You'll learn how file-sharing, streaming, and iTunes have transformed the industry, and how to navigate your way through the new distribution models to capitalize on your work. It all begins with the right team, and this practical guide explains who you need to have on your side as you begin to grow and get more exposure. Coverage includes rehearsing, performing, recording, publishing, copyrights, royalties, and much more, giving you the information you need to start your career off smart.
Music industry success has never been easy to achieve, and recent transformations and disruptions to the business side have made the whole idea even more daunting than before. This guide gives you a roadmap around the landmines, and provides expert advice for starting out on the right foot.
If music is your calling, you need to plan your career in a way that sets you up for success from the very beginning. Put the right people in place, get the most out of your investments, and learn how to work the crowd both virtually and in person. Music Business For Dummies is your companion on your journey to the music career you want.
Industry veteran Bobby Borg provides a step-by-step guide to producing a fully customized, low-budget plan of attack for marketing one's music.
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Drawing on a deep and long-term first-hand engagement with major labels in the early years of the 21st century, this book sheds new light 'behind the scenes', at a time of drastic and far-reaching transformation. Refreshingly, it centres not on artists and the most powerful decision-makers but on everyday experiences of work and back-office corporate employees.
Doing so reveals the internal activities and conflicts that, while hidden from public view, enable processes of change: from paperwork, data systems, managerial pressures and redundancies to graduate training schemes, departmental politics and shared playlists, providing a new route into understanding the broader cultures and infrastructures of the global recording industry. This oft-forgotten office work tells a different story of contemporary digital music, one more sensitive to the complex intersections that texture the conduct of work and organizational life.
The Guidebook to Self-Releasing Your Music is a must-have resource for anyone looking to release their music-equally valuable for first timers as well as for seasoned experts who want the latest information on technology and industry developments. Matthew Whiteside focuses on the areas that musicians can manage themselves, and highlights-with humour and encouragement-the potential benefits and pitfalls along the way.