The Chi-Lites. That explosive brass phrase at the beginning of Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love” comes from the Chicago soul group’s 1970 recording “Are You My Woman? (Tell Me So)”. Producer Rich Harrison had held onto…
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Fleetwood Mac. Not the Fleetwood Mac most people imagine. Peter Green wrote and sang the original “Black Magic Woman” in 1968, years before Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined the group. Santana then transformed the…
Tame Impala’s “Dracula” is about feeling most alive after dark. Kevin Parker uses the vampire idea as a metaphor for somebody whose confidence, creativity and identity seem to appear at night — then disappear when…
You search for your track and it is gone. No clear email. No obvious explanation. No warning. That is stressful, especially if the release had been live for months or years. The first rule is…
If Instagram keeps recommending Creed’s “Higher” whenever you try to add music to a post, you are not imagining it. Meta has acknowledged that the 1999 Creed song has been recommended to more users than…
Streaming services keep appearing. That creates a problem for artists. If you released a song five years ago, how do you make sure it automatically reaches platforms that didn’t exist when the song was originally…
Most artists only think about rights evidence after something goes wrong. A copyright claim arrives. A distributor asks for proof. A song disappears from a platform. Then everyone starts searching old emails, Dropbox folders and…
You distribute your recordings through one company. Does that company also need to administer your songwriting? No. Music distribution and publishing administration are different services. An independent artist can often use one company to deliver…
An artist signs up with a publishing administrator. Does that mean someone will now pitch their music to Netflix, advertisers and game developers? Not necessarily. Publishing administration and sync licensing are connected, but they are…
DistroKid’s Social Media Pack is designed to help artists monetise uses of their music in user-generated videos. That sounds appealing. But it’s worth looking closely at the economics. What does it cost? DistroKid currently charges:…
