For the artists, managers, and operators building the next music industry. Owned audiences, real economics, and the playbooks the major labels won't write.
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Climbing Cringe Mountain
Your digital footprint is now the single most important thing in society.
It takes years, sometimes decades to build up, and it can come crashing down within minutes.
Remember DaBaby? It was Summer 2021 and he was the hottest shit in th...
The Death of the Superstar
The other day, my friend was telling me about the time her mum went and saw Michael Jackson in the 1980s. Her mum’s most vivid memory of the night had nothing to do with the performance itself. Her most vivid memory was of the bodies that d...
5 Steps to Claim Your Mechanicals Before the Majors Do
Part 2: Mechanicals. The $424 million graveyard in Nashville, the second cheque hiding inside every stream, and why your distributor was never going to send it.
In February 2021, the major streaming services wired $424,384,787 to a nonprof...
The Spotify Experiment That Changed My Mind
There’s a Reddit comment I keep thinking about.
A user tried switching from Spotify to Qobuz, lost too many tracks in the migration, and gave up with a line that deserves to be framed: “So I’m sticking with the devil for now.”
“Sticking...
How to Collect Every Dollar Your Song Earns
Part 1: PROs. The venue already paid. The radio station already paid. Spotify already paid. Here's a field guide to avoiding the Royalty Black Box.
After I did a deep dive on the Royalty Black Box some weeks ago, I posted “How The Majors G...
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