You have probably seen the promise that you will “Keep 100% of your royalties” when taking up a subscription-based distribution deal with...

Several countries around the world offer incentives to get movies and TV shows filmed and produced in their country. It’s usually some...

On the 21st of July 1989, during a “live” performance for MTV the playback device failed and began to skip. Not only did it halt the...

In early May 2019 music crowdfunding website PledgeMusic announced it was officially entering bankruptcy. Most of the artists who were...

At the 2019 Ivor Novello Awards, Richard Ashcroft announced that after 22 years the dispute over his song, “Bittersweet Symphony” was...

Aside from the distributors and retailers of music, there are a huge number of societies, organisations and companies that collect and...

As March 29th, 2019 approaches, with no Brexit deal in sight, it’s still unclear what will actually happen if the UK leaves the EU as...

A well known UK distributor early last year starting dumping independent labels, sending some the following letter. “Dear “label name...

What Not To Do As the modern music industry is in constant change, with many of the platforms and resources we now rely on in their...

In part 1, I went over the basic principles of how Spotify works and addressed some of the talking points around the audio streaming...

Streaming accounts for 37% of all the revenue from recorded music and with over 220million subscribers and a market share of 36% Spotify...

One of the most important decisions you will have to make as a self-releasing artist and/or independent record label is which digital...

On the 11th October 2018, President Trump signed the Music Modernization Act (MMA), or the Orrin G. Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music...

I first started selling music online, independently, around 2005. At that time there were almost none of the tools and resources...

And now on centre stage…TheMusicLicence You may have seen in the music press that PPL and PRS for Music have launched a joint venture,...

0n June 29th, PPL made their main annual distribution of royalties to its members. More than £150million was paid out, a 12% increase on...

So you’ve finally finished mixing your latest project and you’re ready to release it, or are you? I’ve met a lot of people who spent...

One of the mandatory questions on the PPL rightsholder registration form is “label name”. Quite often people would get stuck on this...

When a song is written, and then recorded, there are two copyrights involved. The owners of these copyrights get control over the works...

A question I get asked a lot is how to “copyright” your songs, or generally protect them. The question isn’t as straightforward as it...