Music Business Jargon

Barry Tomes

Description

With this book you are well on your way to understanding some of the jargon used in the music business in an easy and fun way. Written by Barry Tomes - music industry veteran and founder of Gotham Records, this book makes the confusing world of the music industry a lot easier to understand.

Sujets

• Music

Informations

• Publié par: Help for Writers
• Date de parution: 17 juillet 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780957186880
• Langue: English

Extrait

Copyright © Barry Tomes 2012
Published by Help For Writers.
ISBN 978-0-9571868-8-0
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without written permission of the author.
Foreword
With this book you are well on your way to understanding some of the jarogon used in the music business in an easy and fun way. I compiled this in France thanks to my friends Trev and Jan who gave me the time to finish my first book and the help of the creative staff in Birmingham Library. ENJOY!
Barry Tomes
Any suggestions for Vol.2? Email: [e-mail]
Wit & Wisdom Of Music
“We got into music to avoid a job and get lots of girls.”
Paul McCartney
A&R: Artist and Repertoire. A&R is the person or persons who sign new acts to a record label.
AAC: Advanced Audio Coding is an MP4. MP4 sounds better than MP3 and allows DRM to be added to the audio track.
Advance (contract): An Advance is a payment, normally from a record label to an artist, to be recouped from record sales. An advance is for one or more albums or single recordings depending on the contract. (Usually recoupable but non returnable if the amount is not earned from royalties). Get that contract right!
Aggregator (digital): Digital Aggregators supply music downloads from labels, producers and artists to many online retailers, e.g. iTunes, CD Baby, Real, Yahoo!
Wit & Wisdom Of Music
“Of all the things I've lost, it's my mind I miss the most.”
Ozzy Osbourne
AIM: The Association of Independent Music is the UK record industry trade body for independent labels. (See useful industry contacts).
AimLabelData: Aimlabeldata provides AIM members information to CatCo.
Airplay (royalties): Broadcasters buy performance licenses from PPL for recordings and PRS for compositions this gives them the right to play live and recorded music. PPL and PRS income is then shared among members minus any commission due to the society.
Assignment (copyright): Copyright can be assigned to a label or publisher, or a third party such as a royalty collection society. This allows them to act on behalf the copyright owner to issue licenses and collect royalties within the terms of the assignment.
Band contracts: A partnership agreement between a band clarifies the rights of individual band members and how and what they get paid. If there is no band contract, anything not owned by individuals is liable to be shared equally between the members. Unequal shares must be formalised.
Wit & Wisdom Of Music
“We're like bad architecture or an old whore. If you stick around long enough, eventually you get respectable.’
Jerry Garcia
Bar-code (CD): A bar code is a machine-readable number (UPC code) used in manufacture, retail and commercial use of a CD. Bar codes don’t just identify CDs at the point of sale; they are also used for chart returns. Some distributors and retailers insist on bar coding.
Black box royalties: Royalty collection societies cannot always find the people they collected royalties for, either because they are non-members or lost. Their royalties are held as black box income. Different countries and organisations deal with black box income in different ways.
Blank media levy: Some countries impose a tax on CD-R, cassette, other blank media and players to compensate for supposed illegal copying. Not all EU countries impose the levy at present. There are also blank media levies in Canada and some other non-EU countries.
Wit & Wisdom Of Music
“Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.”
Jon Bon Jovi