| | | |  How To Collect Live Performance Royalties
For songwriters and bands performing their own material, there's an opportunity to earn additional royalties from live performances. All three US Performance Rights Organizations (PROs) can pay royalties from live performances at bars, clubs, restaurants and other music venues. More | | |  Rdio Pays Artists to Recruit
Subscription music services offering unlimited access to a massive online jukebox have been around for more than a decade, but they're still struggling to attract a mass audience. Meanwhile, some musicians complain that the likes of Spotify and Rhapsody pay such minuscule royalties, it's counterproductive for artists to support them. Now, one of those services - Rdio - is trying to solve both problems at once. More | |  YouTube Shares Ad Revenue With Musicians, But Does It Add Up? YouTube is well-known for videos, but a recent Nielsen study revealed 64 percent of teens and young adults go to it to listen to and discover music. The free website, which is owned by Google, has set up advertising deals to help musicians get compensated. But it's not clear how they're getting paid - or how much. More | | |  Why a Facebook Profile Can't Replace a Fan Page
Quite often, we have musicians who approach us with the same questions: "I don't have a Facebook fan page, but I DO have a personal profile and everyone tells me I need to get a fan page. Why do I need a fan page if I already have hundreds of friends on my personal page?" More | | |  Why Albums Make Little Sense for New Artists
When you first start out, the path to music fame and fortune seems pretty straightforward. Not because you necessarily know what to do, but because of what history tells you. Write some songs, play them live, and record an album. Then you get signed and fame and fortune flows. The problem with this is the music landscape has changed and this template is now largely outdated. More | | |
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