Royalties in Radio Play

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Royalties are a big part of the artist lively hood. When you right a song, and its played on the radio you get a royalty for the play of that song. Royalties are what makes the millionaires you see inside the music business a bulk of their income comes from their royalty checks. Its important to be a member of a song writing organization like ASAP,BMI, or SeSac.

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Music industry plans global database of copyright Gossip and News

Currently, the consulting firm Deloitte is developing a database for the industry based on information from Universal Music Publishing and EMI Publishing, who are among the largest associations of collecting royalties, and retailers ...

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Payola in Radio

Image via Wikipedia Paying for playing your music is still a underground hussel. Payola has been a practice that has been going on since the record business has been around. Many record lablels try to smooth over the Dj's, Radio Programmers, and head of morning shows like Frank Ski of V-103 to get there music played. Payola is illegal and many record companies or artist who have independent record labels try to pay there way into record sales.

ATL radio personality E.T. gets at Jeezy for Payola urswurve.com

Atlanta radio personality E.T. is getting at Jeezy in this video for coming up to the radio station with his CD and some money. Guess payola's still alive these days....but Jeezy paying to play his CD in Atlanta? It must be tough....

Alan Freed, Dick Clark and the Radio Payola Scandal

Fifty-one years ago today DJ Alan Freed was fired from WABC radio when the payola scandal erupted. Here's the story behind that era of pay-for-play, excerpted from the article by Bill DeMain published in Performing Songwriter Issue 89, ...

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Radio Program Managers Responsibilty

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Many people have no idea who controls what you hear on radio. Alot of artist think that the Dj's and the radio personalities decide what music we listen to. The Program Managers are one of the most powerful people in music. He or She calls the shots that decides what music gets played. If you ever listen to V-103 or Hot 107.9 then you know that they always play your favorite artist. What you may not know is that most of the music is played according to the program managers play list or whats hot. Tosha Love is V-103's program manager. Frank Ski is just the Radio personality that plays what she decides. So, the next time you run up on Frank Ski don't ask him to listen to your music ask how can you get intouch with the program manager.

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Internet Radio

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Many people don't realize how important Internet radio is the your movement. Internet Radio allows you to reach a wide audience that public commerical radio may not . A budget for regular commerical F.M. radio can be alot of money for someone starting out trying to build there audience. Internet Radio allows you to be able to get your message out there without breaking the bank.

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What Ever Happen to Jazz

Image via Wikipedia What every happen to the art form known as Jazz? Jazz was an American art form that was heard all over the world. Harlem Renassiance was a great period in Black American history. Jazz in the early 1900's was what hip hop is today. Count Basie Duke Ellington and many others were among some of the greats Jazz musicians in the world.

How did Jazz die? I think with the emergence of other music forms Jazz begin its decline. The corporations never really took Jazz to other heights that it has taken other forms of music. Jazz started die in my opinion when social and economic conditions of black America change for the better and worst.

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Hip Hop Fashion

Image via Wikipedia The hip hop culture has created its on fashion community. Many who was born and raised on the hip hop culture was geared toward a certain dress or style from living in the hood. Baggy jeans, tennis shoes, head phones, and baseball caps were and are the dress code for many in the hiphop community. The attitude the swag the style is what most companies have begin using to build there brand inside the corporate culture of hip hop. Hip hop covers many ethincities and these folks have created a fashion statement that most people dare to wear. In a time when following the crowd is the norm many folks in the hip hop community has chosen to go there own way.
Russell Simmons is someone who has taken the hip hop mindset to the fashion world. Russell created Phat Farm ten years ago. He now has the Argyle Collection for men being pushed through Macys stores across america. Jay Z and Dam Dash took the hip hop culture to the head and created Roca Wear. Hip Hop Fashion is as American as apple pie, and the corporate world has made it a point to get their hands in the mix to market to an audience of people who dress way.

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Black Males in Hip hop

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Black Males in hip hop have been given a bad rap. Many male artist in the hip hop community seems to get stereotyped as men who are loose with women, alcoholics, and unproductive in society. I think that the overall view of hip hop is that black men are worthless. I being an artist myself don't feel like every male inside hip hop is unresponsible. I think most of what the media puts out about hip hop is what the masses see.

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Diddy and Dirty Money

Image via Wikipedia His first name should be Pitful Diddy instead of P-Diddy. Pitful Diddy always seems to be on a track with a his new artist. Last nights American Music Awards with Diddy was an example of his ego getting in the way. I really think he should have let the girls Dirty Money shine on their on last night without Puffy all over the track still trying to rap. I think I just said a rhyme.. lol, I really don't like how the Bad Boy label executive has help launch careers and then turns around and destroys your shit in a single breath. Dirty Money is the newest R&B group that puffy has planned to push out in the front of the public eye. Danity Caine was his last creation along with the boy band that Diddy screwed both of them over.

I think Puffy Daddy need to sit his ass down some where he still think he is the artist and the label which is a bad thing. Nicki Minaj just fired his ass for bad management. I think the performance last night was a real joke.

Brand Building At Open Mics

Many Artist venture out into the city of Atlanta to become know in world of music mostly R&B and Hiphop. Atlanta music communities has showcase and open mics galore. Every year many artist set out to become known in their city as the guy or gal with hottest songs. Alot of artist have failed to learn how to brand build their name in their niche market or demographics. Branding at open mics take some carefull planning. As an artist myself I took into account that I didn't have any real amount of money to help build my brand in the city of Atlanta. I used a few simple strategies that you yourself can use as well to get you noticed in the big city. First thing you want to do is start out small, and find an area that you can work over and over again wether it be on stage or through promotions.

If you are using the stage as a promotional tool try to find a club that caters more toward showing talent like Apache Cafe rather than a being apart of a musical contest. Many open mic contest really don't allow one to see the true talent of an individual. You don't want to run away from a challenge, but its best when you can get a crowd thats there to see you perform not be in a contest. Building a brand takes time and staying consistent is important if you want to break the yolk inside the atlanta music community.

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