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Wed, 24 Apr 2024 22:35:38 +0000

Melody Makeover Series pt.1 #flstudio

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:29:24 +0000

Let’s Connect at BIME Music Conference

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:18:18 +0000

Looking for a Latin music business conference to learn about music and art in the beautiful Bogotá, Colombia? BIME has everything you need and more from May 8th through the 11th. Sound good to you? Here’s everything you need to know about this badass event…

Let’s Connect at BIME Music Conference

Date: May 8-11, 2024

Location: Bogotá, Colombia (Ean University)

BIME is an international music conference that celebrates the intersection of art and music in Latin America. The conference is committed to establishing alternative routes in the music industry that facilitate and amplify artistic and professional flows between Latin America and Europe. These routes aim to generate opportunities for economic, cultural, and relational growth for artists, professionals, companies, and audiences both directly or indirectly linked to music. All of this is supported by the linguistic bond of a language shared by nearly 600 million people.

BIME represents live music, industry, trends, and innovation—a comprehensive experience fostering synergies between continents, facilitating business endeavors, uncovering the most promising emerging talents, sharing knowledge, and exploring the latest developments in Cultural and Creative Industries.

How To Prep

Over 70% of independent musicians struggle with anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. Here at Symphonic, we try our best to provide as many helpful resources as possible to support our community (and beyond). During this year’s Mental Health Awareness month, we’d like to highlight the importance of mental health awareness by sharing some inspiring stories from our community in a short-form video. If you’re an artist who is passionate about mental health advocacy, we’d like to hear from you!

OPEN CALL: Mental Health Awareness Month Video

Concept:

For this year’s Mental Health Awareness month, we’d like to highlight the importance of mental health awareness by sharing some inspiring stories from our community, as well as providing additional resources for artists and music industry professionals alike.

To support these efforts, we will create a short-form video montage with submissions from artists encouraging others to speak about their mental health in an effort to destigmatize seeking help in this industry. Throughout this month, we will also be sharing a comprehensive list of mental health resources on our blog and newsletter.

How To Participate:

Film yourself HORIZONTALLY, answering the following questions in complete sentences. Please keep your answers as concise as possible. Place yourself in mid-range, meaning your rib cage and upwards should be visible in the shot. (Refer to this document for detailed instructions on how to film.)

What does taking care of your mental health look like for you?

Have you experienced any kind of “breaking point” when it comes to your mental health? – If so, what are some key factors that made you realize you needed help?

How did you seek help?

Music often serves as a source of comfort and inspiration for many. Have you experienced firsthand how music can positively impact mental health?

For many years, there has been a stigma across creative industries surrounding mental health, and this outdated view can make it hard for people to reach out and seek help. – How do you think musicians can play a role in normalizing conversations about mental health?

Are there any specific mental health resources or organizations you recommend for other musicians or fans struggling with mental health?

What’s your best piece of advice for someone who is struggling with their mental health at the moment?

Whether you’re an artist, label, or a production team, Symphonic’s Recoupments tool streamlines our client’s financial recoupments like never before. No matter how you need to manage your recoupments, this tool lets you do it easily and reliably right in the SMS. In this post, we’ll shed some light on some of our favorite ways this tool can make your life easier.

5 Ways Symphonic’s Recoupment Tool Can Save You Time

Here’s the rundown…

Symphonic’s Recoupments tool streamlines financial recoupments across various scenarios, serving the needs of artists, labels, and production teams. The tool caters to a variety of financial arrangements in which expenses or advances need to be recouped, and walks users through these often complicated scenarios, demystifying the process with no need for labor-intensive manual calculations to determine artist balances and payouts.

The interface clearly defines who will pay back an expense and for what release. In addition, automating the recoupment process allows artists and labels to focus less on the financial admin and more on creativity and production you’d much rather be spending time on.

First Dollar Scenarios

Imagine you’re a music label who has just signed a new artist, and they’ve released an album. You (the label) can choose specific contributors, like a collaborating artist or a producer, to receive their payments from the very first dollar earned, all while the rest of the expenses are recouped from the earnings of the other contributors. This allows for improved flexibility when enabling certain contacts.

Shared Expenses

In a situation where a label and an artist have agreed to share the production costs of a music video, this tool allows them to proportionally distribute these expenses. As the music video generates revenue, both the label and artist can recoup their respective shares, simplifying the financial management of joint projects.

Artist Level Recoupment

Now, let’s say a music label fronts an advance to an artist for multiple projects. With our tool, the label can recoup this advance across the artist’s various releases. Simultaneously, the system ensures that any collaborators, like session musicians or guest vocalists, all receive their payouts immediately, without being affected by the artist’s advance recoupment.

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Scales, Chords, And Key Modulation | Better Beat Maker Pt.7

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 02:30:18 +0000

I Asked ChatGPT How to Make a Metro Boomin Beat

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 22:31:23 +0000

My Favorite Ai Image Generator • Leonardo ai

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 18:51:43 +0000

ISOxo & FrostTop - Angels Landing (2spade Flip)

Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:32:57 +0000

Melody, Intervals and Chords | Better Beat Maker pt.6

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 22:11:47 +0000

The 4 Layers of Melody | Better Beat Maker pt. 5

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 22:02:32 +0000

Melody Made Easy | Better Beat Maker Pt. 4

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 21:46:04 +0000

Easy Music Theory for Music Producers | Better Beat Maker pt. 3

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 19:30:52 +0000

Music Industry 360 // How Video Distribution Works in 2024

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:36:26 +0000

Music Industry 360 is our music industry podcast that aims to educate new and existing musicians about tools in the industry, while sharing knowledge to help artists take their careers to the next level. Check out the latest episode below…

Music Industry 360 // How Video Distribution Works in 2024

In this episode of Music Industry 360, Randall Foster interviews Vanessa Schiano, the Manager of Video Distribution and Encoding at Symphonic. They discuss the role of music videos in the digital age and the importance of utilizing platforms like Vevo for video distribution. Vanessa explains the different types of music videos, including lyric videos and visualizers, and provides tips for creating videos on a budget. She also shares her journey to Symphonic and highlights some notable music videos. Not only that, the episode concludes with information on how to get started with video distribution through Symphonic. This is a great episode you definitely do not want to miss!

Tune in below…

Want more?

Follow Music Industry 360 on Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer and more right here.

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Fresh New Music ft. Frou Frou, Kim Ann Foxman, Swollen Members & more!

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:43:30 +0000

The weekend is here, kick it off with some Fresh New Music!

Frou Frou, ikai | a new kind of love (ikai remix)

KIM ANN FOXMAN | WE ARE RHYTHM

Statik G, Bubba Sparxxx | Find a Way

Swollen Members | Subhuman

Kash’d Out | Push My Luck

Sarah Close | Justify

Bombargo | pieces of my heart

earth2zoe | typical

Enjoy the latest tracks from the Symphonic independent community.

Looking to get your music featured in our playlists? Submit your releases here.

Stream our Fresh New Music playlist on Spotify

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Subtronics, Rezz - Black Ice

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:26:48 +0000

Eco-Friendly Music Organizations That Are Making a Difference

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:41:02 +0000

The troubling environmental issues our planet faces are more prevalent than ever, but so are a growing number of organizations who are doing their part to drive positive change through community, awareness, and action. Through the intersection of music and environmental advocacy, these organizations are making major waves through their efforts. With Earth Day coming in hot (no pun intended), now is as good a time as any to do your part. Without further ado, here are some badass organizations you can support right now that merge music and environmental activism for a better tomorrow.

Self publishing your music comes with a lot of benefits. You don’t have to share your copyrights with anyone, you aren’t bound to any publishing deals and you get ultimate control over where your work is used and how. Keep in mind, self publishing isn’t for everyone. You need to be able to commit significant time and effort to doing everything a publisher would usually do and more. But if this is something that you’re ready to take on, here’s how to do it right.

How To Self Publish Your Music

Let’s Talk Basics…

Self publishing your songs means you take on the role of both the artist and the publisher. Being a self-published writer ultimately means that you hold all the rights to your Intellectual Property (IP), which means you would be in full control of how your compositions are used and would receive all royalties associated with your share of your compositions.

This is awesome, but these perks come with a little extra work. If you’re still interested, here’s what you’ll need to do to self publish your songs…

Step 1: Make Sure Your Music Hasn’t Been Published Yet

If you’ve worked with a distributor before, you may have opted in for publishing services without even realizing it. For example, our publishing administration services are very popular with our own clients. Before you do anything, definitely make sure this doesn’t apply to you.

Step 2: Register with a PRO

In order for you to receive the royalties you’re rightfully owed, your songs need to be properly registered with a Performing Rights Organization like ASCAP, SESAC or BMI. PRO’s rely on the information you provide to determine who they need to pay and how much.

Start setting up your company by going to either www.ascap.com or www.bmi.com to obtain/fill out an application.

If you are a songwriter and have not yet affiliated, make sure to only do so with only one of these, not all of them.
To ensure you do everything right, check out this post to make sure you don’t miss anything.

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Sharpen your skills…

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Step 3: Sign Up with the MLC

The Mechanical Licensing Collective maintains the world’s most thorough database of music composition copyrights and their owners. They collect mechanical royalties from digital music streaming services and transmit those royalties to copyright holders based on the ownership claims.

Signing up with them ensures that you get all the royalties that are rightfully owed to you. You’ll need to “Connect to Collect” and become a Member of the MLC in order to collect the digital audio mechanical royalties owed to you. // Click here to get started with that process and learn more about it.

Step 4: Time to Promote

Once you’ve completed those steps, you can finally start getting your publisher’s share on top of the writer’s share. Now is the time where the duties of a publisher fall onto you.

Typically, your publisher would be the one networking, seeking out sync deals for TV and film, registering copyrights, negotiating licenses, and more. When you self publish, it’s all on you.

In Conclusion…

Self-publishing typically just entails registering with a PRO to be able to manage and publish your own compositions, but it doesn’t have to end there. If you want to go even further, become a publisher and start your own publishing company! In the meantime, we hope this helped.

As always, you got this.

This year’s Music Biz is coming up fast! Don’t miss out on the opportunity to connect and share with some of the brightest minds in the biz. Here’s everything you need to know before you go, including the events we’ll be a part of this year and where to find us…

Let’s Connect at Music Biz 2024

Date: May 13-16

Location: Nashville, TN (JW Marriott Nashville)

After last year’s gathering of 2,100+ attendees from more than 800 companies across 30 countries, you do not want to miss this year’s Music Biz conference. Whether you’re interested in experiencing expert level viewpoints on the latest trends & tech, seeking out new business partnerships, or celebrating the great minds who are moving our industry forward through innovative new ideas, this conference offers invaluable insights for anyone looking to grow in the music business.

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10 Best Ways To Sell Out Your Next Show

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 09:00:24 +0000

Imagine showing up to a venue to play your show and seeing it overflowing with all your fans. Think about the energy in the room, the screaming fans who waited weeks or even months to see you perform… There’s no better feeling. But for that to happen, it takes a ton of networking, planning and consistent promotion for your audience to be ready to go when the time finally comes. In this post, you’ll learn how to promote your next show to ensure it’s everything you’ve dreamed of and more. Here’s the rundown…

10 Best Ways To Sell Out Your Next Show

Reach Out To The Venue

To get started, the first thing you need to do is reach out to the venue and ask what they’ll be doing to promote the show. If the venue is making flyers and distributing them all over town, don’t waste your time doing the same. Whatever they end up doing is a great contribution, but whatever they don’t is up to you to take care of.

Divide and conquer!

Assemble All The Contacts You Can

If you’ve done this before and promotion isn’t news to you, you probably have a decent list of contacts you can reach out to. If you don’t, you can hit up the venue and ask them to send you their media list. In most cases, the venue will have a list ready to send to bands who are out of town, so it shouldn’t be any trouble for them to send you one too. This list usually consists of emails and phone numbers for local music journalists, editors, bloggers, radio show hosts, etc. In addition, this is a great time to use your own connections within your community to grow this list as much as you can.

You can also seek partnerships with local businesses, organizations, influencers, or artists who have a similar target audience. They can help promote your show to their followers, and you can reciprocate by promoting their work as well. Whether you ask your other touring friends or even your management if you have it, these people want to see you succeed!

Music and community go hand in hand. You are not in this alone, so don’t be afraid to utilize your relationships in the industry. If there was ever a time to do so, this is it.

Hit Up Those Contacts

I’m sure you saw this one coming… You really want to make sure that your show is getting as much coverage as possible. A couple months prior to your show is the time to start reaching out to all the people in the list you collected from the previous step and getting yourself on all the local concert calendars. Doing this in advance is crucial, as it gives them time to set everything up without stressing at the last minute. Not to mention the longer your name is out there, the more people have time to see it.

Lastly, and this should go without saying, be nice. Be genuine, humble, and respectful of their time when you reach out. If you can offer them some free tickets, that’s even better. They don’t have to go out of their way to help you, so if they do you should be forever grateful. In this business, relationships are everything. Be remembered for how personable and kind you were, and they’ll have no problem coming through for you again in the future.

Utilize Online Event Platforms

In the digital age, you can’t ignore online event platforms like Eventbrite, Meetup, Bandsintown, Facebook groups and local event directories. These platforms have a built-in audience and can help increase your show’s visibility. Bandsintown even automatically scans your music from services like Apple Music or Spotify when you sign up for the first time so it’ll show up on your profile, too.

Try Paid Advertising

Consider allocating a portion of your budget to online advertising platforms like Google Ads, Facebook Ads or Instagram Ads. With these, you can target your advertisements to reach the right audience based on location, interests and demographics.

There are so many ways to learn more about your fanbase, and this can be vitally important for knowing what your fans want to see. Once you analyze your audience, you can then create your Average Fan’s Profile. You can then use this profile to help make business decisions such as where to tour, where to spend your time on social media, and more.

We wrote a post called “How to Define Your Audience Demographics to Better Market to Your Fans”, which breaks down everything you need to know about audience targeting and how to make the most of your efforts.

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Viperactive - Angels Crest

Sat, 06 Apr 2024 18:46:42 +0000

NEOTEK - Escape

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 18:25:10 +0000

ARXMANE - MONTAGEM INVASÃO

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 17:17:17 +0000

Spotify's Royalty Changes Now Active - What To Do To Keep Monetizing + WMG & Tunecore a Good Thing?

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 11:12:40 +0000

LXNGVX, LOSTOV - YARE YARE

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:00:26 +0000

What Do Piano Pedals Do? Why Pianos Have Pedals

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 10:53:00 +0000

Musical instruments can be a very mysterious thing upon first brush, and that includes the immortal piano. Whether acoustic or digital, most pianos come with pedals – usually three, each serving a different purpose. Some older pianos only come with two. But what do these pedals do, and why do pianos have pedals? Let’s explore...

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Knock2 - Rock Your World (DENNET Remix)

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:50:26 +0000

Congress to Require Spotify Pay Artists a Minimum Wage

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:47:01 +0000

Distrokid vs. Tunecore vs. CD Baby vs. Venice Music

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:13:06 +0000

NGHTMRE, Juelz, ShaSimone - Thrilla

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:51:36 +0000