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Music Biz 101: How Do Songs Make Money?

Music Biz 101: How Do Songs Make Money?

MONEY STREAM #1: PERFORMANCE ROYALTIES

As a songwriter or producer, you get paid performance royalties every time a song containing your words or music is used commercially. This is most common when your song is played on the radio (AM/FM, satellite, or internet), live concert, TV, or restaurants. (https://www.tunecore.com/guides/how-do-my-songs-make-money).

In order to collect performance royalties, 1. you need to…

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Handling Music Business As Business...LLCs to Partnerships Explained

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Handling Music Business As Business...LLCs to Partnerships Explained

If you are an artist, producer, or songwriter someone along the way has probably told you that you need an LLC or at least some kind of official business structure.

This may or may not be necessary depending on where you are in your career. Here are 4 ways to know it is time in your music career to open an LLC, get a partnership agreement in place, or just keep doing what you're doing as yourself.