Blog Entries - May 2008

What Every Musician Should Look For in a Digital Distributor by Peter Wells

Peter Wells

Peter Wells is the
SVP of Operations and Customer Advocate at TuneCore .
Peter began as a classical pianist, English literature teacher, senior
technical writer at Cisco and director of label relations at eMusic, where he
built a deep knowledge of the music business.

Part II of What Every Musician Should [...]

Record Labels Are Not Venture Capitalists by David Rose

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Having worked for both venture backed technology companies and record labels I often have friends from one industry attempt to relate to the other by saying something along the lines of “record labels are just like venture capitalists”. It is true both venture firms and record companies invest their time and money into a third party with the intent of making a (large) return on their investment. However, in my experience there are
more differences in their tra [...]

What Every Musician Should Know about Digital Distribution by Peter Wells

Peter Wells

Peter Wells is the SVP of Operations and Customer Advocate at TuneCore. Peter began as a classical pianist, English literature teacher, senior technical writer at Cisco and director of label relations at eMusic, where he built a deep knowledge of the music business.

Part I: Distribution and Doing It Yourself

You
can sell your mus [...]

What Would John Doe Do - Publicity Interviews

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John Doe is the founder of the
seminal Los Angeles punk group X, a solo artist and actor. John answers
questions from our community members in the WWJDD? blog. Photo by Autumn de
Wilde.

A Question from Christina in Half Moon Bay, California

Hello John,

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Project Unfound Artist Helping Musicians Get Paid by David Rose

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SoundExchange collects royalties from satellite, cable and online radio stations on behalf or recording artists and record labels in the United States. Each time a song is played on stations from XM, Sirius, Pandora, Last.fm and the like Soundexchange collects royalties that are supposed to be paid out directly to recording artists and their record label (regardless of an artist’s “recoupment” balance with their label).

Unl [...]