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Musician’s Guide To Monetizing Music On Every Platform
A number of newer, non-traditional methods for artists to make money off their music have cropped up over the past few years, provided much-needed additional revenue streams. Here, we’re helping make sense of how you can maximize your revenue on every platform.
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Your guide to maximizing your music revenue everywhere
These days, there are more ways for musicians to make money from their work than ever before. In the modern era, downloads and streaming have become the new “traditional” revenue sources; that is, the ones most artists are familiar with and know they can earn money from based on use of their sound recording and composition. But a new term was needed to define the way to collect revenue from even newer, non-traditional sources. That new term is
Backstory:
Tin Pan Apple debuted in 1982 with a lot of noise. Charlie Stettler and Lynda West, then-owners of a New York roller disco, put together a six-minute gag cassette of street noise for homesick city dwellers. The recording was among the highest-selling Christmas stocking-stuffers, selling more than 250,000 at stores like Bloomingdale’s and Bendel’s. They next produced the Tin Pan Apple Rap & Breakdance Contest at Radio City Music Hall, the first major corporate sponsored (Coca Cola and WBLS) hip hop event. Three chubby Brooklyn teenagers calling themselves the Disco 3 were the rap winners. Stettler/West signed them and renamed them the Fat Boys and the rest is history.