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Date: March 8, 2017Author: Wendy Day

Tik Tok Shut Down/Sale

By, Bob Lefsetz This is a music business issue. Despite the corroded infrastructure of the twentieth first century music business, based on terrestrial radio and a small number of top of the chart records, the best way to reach the target demo, the youth of today, with music, both old and new, is TikTok. We […]

Daniel Ek On Streaming Royalties

By, Bob Lefsetz “There is a narrative fallacy here, combined with the fact that, obviously, some artists that used to do well in the past may not do well in this future landscape, where you can’t record music once every three to four years and think that’s going to be enough. The artists today that […]

Reasons To Use A Social Media Posting Calendar By, Wendy Day

We are being challenged like never before, both in our professional lives and our personal lives. This is where we either pivot or perish. It’s a absolutely a pivotal moment in our industry and around the world. We need to react with a plan. Many have been comforted and inspired by so many of us […]

11 Things Artists Need to Know to Break in the Music Business

Entrepreneur and author Wendy Day breaks down 11 things artists need to know to get started in the music business. Wendy Day, Feb 17, 2020Reprinted from DJBooth.net Photo Credit: S_K_ The music industry can be a lot of fun. If you do it right, you can achieve the dream of fame. However, there are also […]

On The Road With Pigface: Tour Management Students Take The Ride Of Their Lives

In this piece, rap music industry veteran Wendy Day recounts her experience taking eleven music business students on a sixteen day, sixteen city tour with industrial rock supergroup Pigface. Guest post by Wendy Day, Founder of Rap Coalition, PowerMoves, Artist-Centric, and SlavesNoMore After 27 years working in the rap music business, it’s hard to find […]

Hip-Hop Business Expert Wendy Day Launches ‘20/20 Vision’ Daily Video Series

Wendy Day, an entrepreneur, author, and artist manager with nearly three decades of experience in the music industry, is kicking off the 2020s with 31 days of valuable music business advice for hip-hop artists. On January 1, Wendy posted the first episode of “20/20 Vision,” a video series consisting of one post per day that […]

Top Business Books Of The Decade (2010 To 2019)

With the decade coming to close, Wendy Day shares a list of some of the best, most instructive, business – and music business – books to come out of the past ten years. —- Guest post at Hypebot.com by Wendy Day, Founder of Rap Coalition, PowerMoves, Artist-Centric, and SlavesNoMore I read a lot. When I’m […]

Lil Nas X Lessons

By, Bob Lefsetz EMBRACE NEW PLATFORMS The younger generation is online all the time…how else will they connect with their peers? And the younger generation is all about new platforms. Oldsters are on Facebook, you can’t find anybody under twenty who uses that platform. So take the temperature of the younger set, see where they […]

Ed Sheeran Gets 70 Million Monthly Listeners on Spotify Thanks To 800+ Playlists

By, Wendy Day (@RapCoalition on IG) On July 12th, Ed Sheeran dropped a collaboration album with a variety of established artists such as Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper, PnB Rock, Bruno Mars, Chris Stapleton, Camila Cabello, Khalid, Stomzy, Yebba, Young Thug, Cardi B, Travis Scott, Eminem, 50 Cent, H.E.R., A Boogie, Skrillex, Ella Mai, and […]

How to Turn a $147 Song into a $79 million Tour (Or: How Songwriters Are Getting Stiffed On Live Music Royalties)

The following op/ed comes from Los Angeles-based Chris Dampier, Head of Publishing at TuneCore, where he oversees both publishing and sync for the company. Dampier previously worked at BMI, where he was Director, Creative: Film, TV and Visual Media. He has also held positions as head of licensing at CMH Records, Inc, and Universal Music […]

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