100+ of the most important systems, plans, templates and guides you need to start and run a successfully organised artist management business. Includes starting a management company guide, music business plan template, artist management agreement, artist on-boarding checklist, a contact directory template and much more.
DISCO makes it easy to organize, search and share your music and other files, all in the one place. Artists, labels, managers, publishers, broadcasters and music supervisors around the world use DISCO to organize their files and collaborate with their teams and networks.
The UK music industry contacts directory database online. From booking gigs to sending demos to record labels or planning your own EP release. The Unsigned Guide contains over 8,500 contacts spanning 50 areas of the UK music industry. Filter contacts by genre, UK towns and cities and more.
Free PDF ebook written by Amy Thomson, the founder of ATM Artists and former manager of Swedish House Mafia. The book breaks down expert knowledge on a range of essential music industry topics, including record company deal options, lawyers, royalty statements, touring, release dates, international marketing and much more.
A suite of tools for musicians, managers and booking agents. View detailed info for all upcoming live shows, such as the time schedule, contact info, show related files, flights, hotels, ground transportation, deal info and tickets sales all filtered based on everyone’s personal permissions directly in the ABOSS App for Android & iOS.
LabelGrid make it easy to manage, deliver, promote and track your music and video catalogue from a central platform and scale up as you grow. With a simple content management panel, flexible delivery engine and cutting-edge marketing tools. Go the self-hosted route by using the WordPress plugin LabelGrid Tools for Record Labels and Distributors.
Many artists sign record deals they don’t fully understand. CreateSafe have created a record deal simulator to help artists, managers, and labels model deal options and forecast profits. It’s a rough guide to better understand the finances of how record deals work.
Revelator Pro offers one platform to manage digital assets, supply chain, rights management, business intelligence, financial reporting, and royalty payment distribution. With Revelator Pro, you can easily manage all of your digital assets, copyrights and metadata in one place.
The complete guide to setting up your own record label. The ultimate free blueprint to get set up and running ASAP. Put together by Nick Sadler head of NSDMT management and author of the Label Machine Blueprint record label course.
The world’s first automated digital manager for emerging musicians and managers, providing them with guidance, control over their careers and connection to the music industry. Manage your act easily and with step by step guides with explanations through everything you need to do to manage your music, setting up your foundation, playing shows, releasing music, […]
Reprtoir is a CMS and business software solution designed for record companies and music publishers to support creative, commercial and administrative teams in the day-to-day management of data, and more specifically in the organisation of music content, contributors, rights, and royalties.
The world’s largest independent digital distribution partner for indie electronic music labels. Our delivery network includes major DSPs alongside emerging platforms that cater for specialist sounds, so whatever your genre – we will make sure your music gets heard by the right audience. Our full suite of label services powers independent brands of all sizes.
Ari Herstand’s book, ‘How To Make It In The New Music Business’, is updated to include the latest developments in the music business. Best practices for growth on streaming services, worldwide royalty collection, direct marketing and cohesive branding techniques, innovative release strategies and the evolution of Instagram, Spotify, Apple Music, playlisting and live streaming apps.
Artist Management School is your step-by-step guide to becoming a high-demand artist manager or self-managed artist (with more confidence and less winging it). It’s a 12-week training and mentorship program designed to take the guesswork out of signing, launching, marketing, and managing artists to success so that you can become a full-time music industry entrepreneur.
The Association of Independent Music’s Start-up Guide to Music Business provides an essential ‘How To’ on starting and growing a business working with and releasing music in the 21st Century. The free guide intends to help readers cut through the noise and distils the essential information needed to understand the various parts of the business […]
Royalty accounting, content management, distribution and promotion software for the music industry. From royalty accounting and sales analytics to distribution and promotion, AMPsuite’s web based system can help streamline your label management saving you time and money.
When signing a record deal, one clause can be the difference between picking your singles and losing your vision, amassing wealth and missing out, buying the dream car and leasing the minivan. A tour of the record deal fundamentals, in the second Decoded: Record Deals installment from AWAL.
Collaborate with your team and customers right on the content. Review music, video or images in snap. Chat live with your team, external content producers, and clients to speed up the content production process.
Emily White’s book, ‘How to Build a Sustainable Music Career and Collect All Revenue Streams’. For the first time, White has penned all of her best practices and advice for musicians looking to build a long term career into a single book (available in print and digital versions) while ensuring they aren’t missing any funds […]
Rostr maps the largest database of artist teams including hundreds of thousands of relationships between artists, managers, agents and labels. Search thousands of music companies by type, city, state or country with one-click access to their rosters and info. Instant access to email, LinkedIn, address and phone numbers for thousands of booking agents and music […]
BBC Radio 1 DJ, Phil Taggart’s ‘The Slacker Guide to the Music Industry’ is a comprehensive 364-page guide (available in print and digital download) and has chapters including: building a fanbase, music videos, management, image, publishing, distribution and streaming, PR and many more.
Free digital copies of Martin Atkins 600 page book ‘Band:Smart‘ in exchange for your email address. The epic tome looks at crowdfunding to success, from labels to DIY, contracts, marketing, studios, producers, managers, distribution, people, marketing strategies, booking, agents, band names, stagecraft and all of the stuff you’d expect and some of the stuff you […]
If you have created content with a collaborator, you need to have a written agreement in place. Cosynd is an essential toolkit that helps you to collaboratively create agreements that gets everyone on the same page about what they own and what they can or can’t do with your content.
The second edition of How The Music Business Works has been written to explain how all of the moving parts of this industry work together, from record label deals to public performance licenses, copyright registration to the Music Modernization Act, the Harry Fox Agency to SoundExchange. Free 600+ page PDF in exchange for email address.
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