Jay Cooper, a music lawyer based in Los Angeles breaks down the importance of educating yourself about the music business and cites some examples on how that can greatly benefit how you get paid.

Hip hop artist Rhymefest wrote a thought provoking article at DJ Booth.net posing the question about who is more responsible for breaking records currently; bloggers or DJ’s? This has become increasingly frustrating for artists who find out that a lot of club DJ’s only want to play what’s hot on the streets and a terrestrial radio push demands that you have “mucho deniro”. So you’re stuck in a fucked up “chicken or the egg” scenario. They won’t play you if you’re not hot, but you can’t get hot if they don’t play you. Read the rest of this entry »

We all know that radio sucks…that is, until they start playing your shit.

If you happen to do the right politickin’, spend the right amount of money, or have a joint so hot on the streets that you can’t be denied, you may successfully get it in rotation. If this happens, you want to make sure that your spins are accurately monitored and counted. There are a couple of systems that will do this for you that you should know about. And they’re FREE.

BDS (Broadcast Data Systems): This is the standard for monitoring radio, television and internet airplay of songs based on the number of spins and detections.  This monitoring is done with a patented computing Read the rest of this entry »