Music Business

“And now I wanna be your dog And now I wanna be your dog And now I wanna be your dog” These are the lyrics that make up the Stooges ...

If you ask the question: “is censorship still relevant?” the answers you’ll get might surprise you. Anyone born after Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP (essentially anyone under 25), might tell you that it ...

Everyone has questions about the publishing world. That side of the industry is endlessly layered and is generally just a big mystery. Music publishing is one of the most complex ...

Music publishing is, in short, the process of monetizing music. It is a way so that the people who are involved in the creation, recording and copyright processes of music ...

NFTs, using the power of blockchain, have generated millions of dollars in revenue for musicians including 3LAU & Grimes in recent times. Could it be the key to unlocking total ...

The Stock Market is in bed with every multi-million dollar industry, including music, in all ways shape or form. Not more than a decade ago was the music industry on ...

The Juno Awards, also known as the JUNOS, is a prestigious annual event acknowledging and awarding Canadian musical artists and bands for their achievements in all aspects of music. The pandemic created ...

COVID-19 does not discriminate when it comes to music. Every discernible live music venue’s been shut down, artists with tours planned have had to cancel them, and even going down ...

As any music genre ages, eventually one ends up with some key figureheads as representative. In the 1960s, rock music was more or less still brand new. As it grew ...

So you’ve just signed with your first record label or are considering seeking a record label out. You may be thinking to yourself, what exactly doe modern record labels do ...

No, you do not need a degree of any kind to be a successful musician, music producer, or recording engineer. Even so, thousands of hopefuls head to schools across Canada, the United ...

Years ago, Funktasy began as a Montreal-based record label tasked with delivering high quality product to the international music marketplace. Today, it stands stronger than ever with artists and releases ...

Creating and submitting the perfect demo to record labels is a challenge unto itself. As you send out your demo, know there’s no guarantee that a demo will be listened ...

Music markets in Canada, the US, the UK, and internationally continue to change and adapt with each year that passes. As some trends come to rise, others lose their steam ...

Producers today spend so much time on laptops and creating music remotely, at the same time that big facility recording studios are either going out of business or finding ways ...

As the 2018 Grammy Awards have now come to a close, there are some big conclusions that industry insiders have drawn from the events that transpired both on- and off-air. ...