Your Music Catalog Is Becoming a Financial Asset. Here’s How to Use It Without Selling Your Masters.
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The music business is discovering that a catalog can be more than a collection of recordings. It can become a source of funding, financial independence, and long-term opportunity. But as companies like Pipeline build a new market around music royalties, the question is whether working independent musicians will finally get access to the same financial tools available to larger music companies. BookStudio Time
The Music Industry Has Been Collecting Royalties. But Does It Know What Songs Are Actually Being Played?
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New research from Britain’s grassroots music venues raises troubling questions about how live-performance royalties are measured, who gets paid, and whether the next generation of music technology could finally give independent songwriters a more accurate accounting. StreamAlbums
There’s Music Coming From the Stage. Is There Money Finding Its Way Back?
Imagine you’re sitting in a little music club on a Friday night. The place holds maybe a hundred people, the bartender is having trouble keeping up, and a three-piece blues band is absolutely tearing the roof off. The guitarist has been playing professionally for twenty years, the bass player has a day job because apparently being able to play bass doesn’t impress the electric company, and the drummer is holding everything together with the sort of musical magic that deserves considerably more money than the contents of the tip jar.
When the Streams Lie: Washington Is Finally Looking at the Real Cost of Music Streaming Fraud
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The Federal Government Is Asking a Question Independent Artists Should Help Answer
For years, streaming fraud has been discussed as though it were mostly an accounting problem involving robots, suspicious playlists and fractions of pennies that somehow escaped from a giant royalty bucket. That description has never really captured the damage. An independent artist does not build a career inside a royalty spreadsheet. They decide where to tour, where to buy advertising, which songs deserve another marketing push, which cities seem to be growing, what merchandise to manufacture and where their next precious few hundred dollars should go. When the numbers feeding those decisions are fake, the artist can lose far more money outside the streaming platform than they ever expected to earn from the streams themselves.
What Sonible Joining Complete Access Really Means for Independent Studios
Sonible’s intelligent mixing tools have joined a powerful subscription ecosystem alongside Slate Digital, Solid State Logic, and Harrison Audio. For independent musicians and recording engineers, the deal offers exciting new ways to work faster and produce better recordings. But it also raises an important question about the future of music production: Are we building studios we control, or renting the tools we need to keep them running?
Sunjay’s tenth studio album, Split The Sheets, brings a long creative journey full circle. It follows Black & Blues Revisited (2022) and the critically acclaimed Chris Smither tribute I’m Just Like You (2024), two records that looked closely at the music, writers, and traditions that helped shape him as an artist. Split The Sheets completes that arc while also opening the door to something broader, bolder, and more personal.
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“Breaking Chains” is a timely and insightful exploration of how decentralization is reshaping the music industry. Richard L’Hommedieu draws on deep industry knowledge to examine the shifting balance of power between artists, labels, and digital platforms. The book offers both a critique of the traditional music business and a roadmap for musicians seeking independence in a rapidly evolving landscape. With clear explanations and practical strategies, L’Hommedieu empowers readers to understand blockchain, streaming economics, and new models of ownership. More than just a guide, it’s a call to artists to reclaim control of their work and careers. A must-read for musicians, managers, and anyone curious about the future of music."
