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Am I being funny in the title? You tell me, I think not so much. It sounds goofy, but in my opinion dont deep it. If you ever decide to have a successful music catalogue & see a good way of securing a bag for it why wouldn’t you? Thank you to gen z digital media for that one. As someone who otherwise wouldn’t even acknowledge it, is fun. You don’t need to sell all of it to sell some, so enjoy some information about that. I asked chat gpt to explain it to us so thank you to ch

Do you honestly think it’s a trap to have a label help an artist? The thing is, let’s word this correctly because it’s not about traps or help. In order for the label to work with the artist for both to have mutual benefit, several instances need to be implied by both. Before getting into that, it’s a weird time for music - from AI, new terms of use, oversaturation of starlets cosplaying as rappers in mainstream media you’ve seen how the art has become ridiculous. Always rem

While mainstream music often operates through : visibility, marketability, and mass emotional appeal, underground music grows from: bedrooms, garages, small crowds, uncharted territories. The underground art is more about creating in flow rather than hitting specific targets for financial success. Currently, we get to see a lot of people talk about underground music within all genres, not one specific experimental style which gets to make it’s way into the charts. Undergroun

General information about music catalogue sales will make you love the concept, too.

Hi reader thankfully I’m obsessed with music, with music industry media, music community EQUALLY as I am obsessed with certain levels of understanding. If I don’t process & compartmentalize - I get stuck until it happens. So I decided to translate that here. First of many deeper essays, let’s go. What becomes mainstream is rarely random. It seems kind of simple to explain. It’s much harder to produce it - and make it reach a big audience successfully. Those familiar emotions

Don’t be the person who doesn’t know how to operate your part of a business in a room with people who do. If you can. Reading this is definitely a great start for you if you’re here to use these for your own work with a fresh team, collaborators & similar. Thanks to several business majors who approved the post & some life experience Throughout the years I’ve come across terms I’ve not seen or heard before by reading & along with that there was several instances where I’ve fa

This piece is both for the artist who wants to be signed to a label as well as someone who’d potentially work in one. Let’s generalize it first: A label is basically Creative + Marketing + Business + Data + Network All working together to turn: an idea → into a cultural product → into money → into a financially ideal career You can consider it fact that some way or other any major label knows this as a key concept: The truth is simple: people don’t just follow music. They f

I think it might be a common thing, though. But I also know that I’ve got a long list of like, shit I do, that none of the people around me actually know about. It all seems like nothing. Then you start to tell people and suddenly it might start sounding like making music is now being an influencer who’s also a marketing genius with generational wealth. Being an independent artist or producer often means wearing many hats at I can’t exactly imagine doing this whole thing ag

Music & labels are easy to understand.

Masters, Publishing, Streams, what’s the main info? You can read that here.

AI took over the internet & we’ve all started to use it one way or another. What was once impressive even to someone who doesn’t care about art is now standard to see. There seems to be more people who use their given AI tools to make the content for them instead of the AI tools helping them with the content they want made. Despite “AI slop” cluttering the field entirely, it’s made it harder for anyone to be a full time project based artist. Ironic, because it’s never been e

Welcome to the 7th part of Cultur:ed. This one kind of requires a pen and paper, or pull out the marker & whiteboard because you might just start getting into it for real. It might not be clear to every creative that there’s a similarity to any type of content people put out. There’s a framework & using it isn’t as time consuming as it might sound. There’s no point in using your time to post for no views. It should be important to start showing yourself and your work appropri

In the past, producers were limited to working in studios with artists, hoping for placements or credits that could turn into royalties. Today, the landscape looks completely different. With new technology, the creator economy, and global platforms, producers can turn their skills into income in more ways than ever before. Here’s a breakdown of the most powerful and emerging income streams for producers in 2025 and beyond. Music-Centered Opportunities 1. Sync Licensing (TV,

You are now reading the 5th part of our ongoing producer/artist/independent artist series titled “Cultur:ed”. We are now getting into some general territory along with some new examples - streaming & how TikTok exists to help you reach more streams written in the last months of 2025. Disclaimer: this is a generalized opinion and courteous towards anyone who wants their music to be heard & in most cases performed. It’s also good for anyone looking into managing a client. Ther

Welcome to CULTUR:ED - our segment in which we share a particularly large scale situation within the music, culture & media space from which we can learn from & possibly shift our mindsets in their actually adequate direction. With that said, we also do not make any “implications” of any ill willed actions from sides spoken about and do not support any mass theories & negative opinions. We’re here with some facts which can potentially work wonders in a life of someone who wo

Releasing music independently isn’t just about uploading a track & making one TikTok video for it a day. If that was your only option it would still require some planning and strategizing. Independent releases today are mini-strategies, not just uploads. By following these steps — finishing your track, planning, using social media, leveraging AI smartly, promoting strategically, learning from metrics, and resting — new producers can go from bedroom creation to streams that ac