Share Tadcast offers a unique solution for musicians looking to advertise their music as well as viral video producers. The concept is unique, musicians can pay to place their songs in the viral videos of YouTube sensations on a PPC basis. Raising the question of how many artists will pay to feature their songs in [...]

Share In today’s music industry it is absolutely neccessary to establish an online marketing plan centered around a website, preferrably a domain that you own so YOU reap all the benefits of your hard work.  The first step to setting up your website is thinking of a domain that encompasses your brand and some keywords [...]

Share In Urban music most new artists want that “Hot” feature on their record.  That is all well and fine, but let’s start with the basics of getting the single ready for the feature.  If you have taken the time to produce and write a hit song on your own, then a feature should only [...]

Share Coast 2 Coast New Music Industry Convention Announced for August 27th-29th in Miami, FL Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes & Magazine announce the 2nd Annual Coast 2 Coast Convention to take place in Miami, FL August 27th-29th. The conference will be attended by a large list of music industry guests and sponsors such as iStandardProducers.com, [...]

Share The New Music Seminar was a legendary event, slated to return for the first time in 15 years in New York City for a few days only. Tom Silverman of Tommy Boy Records started the seminar in the eighties to define where the industry was going, now he restarts the conference with the same [...]

Share If your initial response to the title question is “I don’t have one”, “I don’t need one” or even “I don’t want one”, then you should definitely reevaluate your goal to be successful in this business and consider a career checking vital signs or flipping burgers; because a gimmick is the second most important [...]

Share What’s up to the seekers of knowledge (Guru Gong here)! It’s been a while what I’m back with more ASCAP info.  I noticed some of the questions on the comments of past articles and tried to answer some here. Before reading this particular ASCAP Guru session, I recommend reading Guru Session #3 “The 9 [...]

Share Unless you have worked for the radio department of a label, or else you have worked for an independent promoter or radio magazine, you probably have never heard of an “add date”. But the “add date” is probably the most basic building block of both commercial and college airplay, and it is used in [...]

Share Many people, when planning the date that their radio campaign will start, think that starting the campaign at a certain time of the year will make a huge difference in the outcome of the project. It won’t. There are many other factors which are far more important, and these factors will determine what happens [...]

Share What’s up music self educators?  You are making this industry better each day you learn something.  Previously on my last ASCAP Guru Session, we touched upon the importance of publishing and why EVERY songwriter, whether they are signed or not signed to a publishing deal, should have both a writing and publishing account with [...]