From Releasing Music to Running A Music Business

You're releasing music, but is the business behind it keeping up?

As releases grow, so do all the moving parts: rights, splits, agreements, metadata, registrations, royalties, contributors, due dates and increasingly complicated questions about who owns what and who needs to be paid.

From Releasing Music to Running a Music Business is a practical guide for independent labels, artist-led businesses and self-releasing artists who are building as they go. It's designed to help you get the business side of your music much more clear, more organised and easier to manage - without turning your creative independent business into a corporation.

Inside you'll learn how to:

• get clarity about the rights you own and control
• get agreements out of inboxes, out of conversations and out of people's heads
• keep useful metadata and catalogue info in one place
• understand what needs registering and why
• understand royalty income from source, to calculation, to who gets paid
• build a smoother process for releases
• make your catalogue easier to understand and to licence
• delegate so that you're not the only person holding all the knowledge
• identify what to fix first with a 15 minute business-side check-up
• use a practical 30 day reset, action sheets and starter templates to begin putting it into practise

Written from more than three decades-worth of real-world experience across labels, publishing, rights, royalties and business affairs, this isn't a giant music industry textbook. It's a 38-page practical companion you can actually finish on a train journey or a flight and come away knowing what to pay attention to in your own business.

No gatekeeping. No unnecessary jargon. Just the business end of the music made easier to understand.

PDF digital download. Includes practical action sheets, copyable starter templates, a plain-English glossary and recommended industry resources.

You make the music. We make it work.