What Are the Differences Between Making Sync Music and Artist Music?
Deciding your financial path as an artist is about much more than where you upload your songs… Learn about all the differences here.
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Improve Your Songwriting, Vocal Production, and TV/Film Syncs With Lavender Looi
Improve your skills and sensibilities in a session with pro-level songwriter, producer, and sync media insider, Lavender Looi.
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How to Make a Music Supervisor Happy: Choose Your Words Wisely
Scoring that lucrative sync license is the goal of many artists today. Here are some tips for making sure your lyrics and titles win the client over!
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How to Make a Music Supervisor Happy: Be Prepared with Instrumentals & Alt Mixes
Scoring that lucrative sync license is the goal of many artists today. Make sure you’re prepared with the proper tracks when the opportunity strikes.
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How to Start Getting Your Music Licensed – Industry Insiders Share Their Secrets
Sync licensing opens up a whole world of revenue and exposure for your music. Here are key tips from industry pros on how to secure placements and get paid.
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5 Alternative Ways to Make Money from Your Music
By Nicholas Rubright In today’s environment where music is consumed mostly from streaming and free sources, making money from music sales seems like a thing of the past. CD sales were replaced by downloads fees, which are now being replaced by royalties from music streaming, often worth less than the checks they’re written on. While free…
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Advice for the Indie Artist: 4 Things We Learned at CD Baby’s DIY Musician Conference
This past weekend, more than 1,000 musicians descended on the most haunted hotel in Chicago for CD Baby’s 2nd annual DIY Musician Conference. Over the course of three days, attendees heard from a wealth of speakers about opportunities and strategies for succeeding in the music world as an independent artist. It also included a jam…
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Entrepreneurship in Music: Songtradr
Entrepreneurship in Music Series: 011 SONGTRADR CEO & Founder Paul Wiltshire Songtradr is a brand new marketplace platform for trading and licensing music rights. They only officially launched in March and are working to connect artists, labels, and rights-holders directly with production libraries and talent buyers across industries in a clean and simplified way. They’ve removed the…
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Entrepreneurship in Music: Third Side Music
Entrepreneurship in Music Series: 007 THIRD SIDE MUSIC Founder, A&R, and VP Finance Jeff Waye Splitting his time between Los Angeles and Montréal, Jeff Waye started Third Side Music (TSM) after years of running the famed independent electronic music label, Ninja Tune. Third Side Music is now celebrating its tenth year and…
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Entrepreneurship in Music: Musicbed
Entrepreneurship in Music Series: 002 Musicbed C.E.O. & Co-founder Daniel McCarthy Founded in 2010, Musicbed is a full-service music licensing platform based in Fort Worth, Texas that provides easy access to a highly curated selection of music to filmmakers worldwide. They believe that relevant music should be accessible and that…
