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The Upcoming Artist Guide

Dear Upcoming Artist,What Does Cross-Collateralization Entail?As deal types evolve in the Nigerian music industry, we'll most likely hear more on this now or much later. Before that, I should reiterate

That people still don’t deem music a highly capital-intensive industry is actually funnyRe: this report by IFPI in 2013, Labels spend as much as 15.6% of their revenue on artist

Does Netflix’s Recent Move Vindicate Music Streaming Platforms?I’ve in the past read pieces on ‘how music streaming platforms should level up & increase artist revenue’ by taking a cue from

Dear Upcoming Artiste,As promised, courtesy of an original tweet by @thisisdamolaHere, a thread "Why Increase in Streams ≠ a Corresponding Increase in Revenue"This is from a December 2019 study I

Dear Upcoming Artiste,You're human first, making music doesn't immunize you from the NEED to work on other areas you're probably not good at but are however important to your career.I'll

Dear Upcoming Artiste, As promised, words from a July '19 survey I did with some of our rising independent artistes on what they'll expect from a record label, if they

Dear Upcoming Artiste,Ran a survey some months ago among some of our rising talents. It's about what they (as indie artistes) expect from a record label [deal], if they should

Some DJs have expressed concern about Instagram yanking live-streaming of their set. So, I thought it's probably high time they understood the [basic] legalities of live-streaming, as promised earlier in