Make Money in Music

Explore proven strategies for success for independent musicians, songwriters and producers in this music blog about the future of music and you. Think big about your music career and prosper.

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A Song Critique Service to Help You Make Better Music

Music, being an invisible subjective art form, is wide open to anyone’s opinion. And that is especially true when getting a song critique. When a particular “anyone” happens to be a celebrity or influencer, they hold in his or her hands…
Instagram for Musicians

Instagram for Musicians: Music Marketing Tips You Need to Know

Instagram is one of the most effective music promotion channels out there with over 1 billion monthly active users. And 500 million of those users are on the app every day. Not to mention, Instagram has the highest engagement rates across…
Musician's guide to instagram

Musician’s Guide to Instagram: Growing Your Fanbase

Instagram is one of the best places to grow a fanbase for musicians. But you only have to take a trip to the explore page to realize that there is a ton of content posted on Instagram every single day. How on earth do you stand out and…
Musician Power Tools

How to Promote Your Music

The internet has opened up endless possibilities to promote your music. And, while that may seem daunting, it really allows you to experiment and let your creativity run wild! The key to successfully promoting your music in today's music…

How to Get Your Music on Spotify Playlists

“How to get your music on Spotify playlists?” That’s the hot question in the mind of just about every indie musician on the planet. And with good reason. There are plenty of inspiring stories of musicians who got one song on a crazy-popular…
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How to License Your Music – 4 Steps to Get Started

Do the math. 1,000,000 streams on Spotify will get you approximately $3,000 in royalties. 1 MILLION STREAMS ON SPOTIFY! Can you even hit that target in a whole year? I’m not even sure I could make it in TEN years! Here are…
How to make music for gaming and other industry news
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Music for Gaming: What Indie Musicians Need to Know

Why the massive growth in gaming is great for indie musicians, plus other news from the music industry. Did you know that thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, video games are a bigger industry than movies, and North American sports, combined?…
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Vice Watch – How to Take Your Music Career to 11

The Invisible Common Denominator. I’m known in the music industry for doing thorough research. Some of my research projects have spanned more than a thousand hours each. This particular journey led me to discover something I call vice watch.…
How to use Instagram Reels to share your music
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Use Instagram Reels to share your music

How you can get your music heard using the Instagram Reels feature - plus more music industry news for indie musicians. Instagram Reels have been around for a couple of months now. If you're on Instagram you'll have seen these super-short,…
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Tips for Better Songwriting in 2021

How to make 2021 your best songwriting year yet, plus other news for indie musicians. With the crazy world we're living in right now, and so many distractions, finding the focus and inspiration for songwriting can be difficult. If you're…
Musician's Guide to Coronavirus

Working Musician’s Guide to Coronavirus

We are certainly in unprecedented times, and so many musicians are having their livelihood affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this Working Musician's Guide to Coronavirus we are going to show you how you can continue making money to support…

How to Get Your Music on TV and Films

Music libraries are one of the BEST ways to license your music and get your music on TV and films with music libraries and get started in licensing! Any music genre can get licensed in music libraries and music libraries work with musicians…
How to grow your fanbase and promote your music

How to Grow Your Fanbase and Promote Your Music

Let's talk about music promotion. Believe it or not, it's not just about selling your music and getting fans out to gigs. You also need to think long-term, and take action to grow your fanbase and get your music in front of a new, ever-expanding…
3 Quick Ways to Grow Your Music Career
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3 Quick Ways to Grow Your Music Career

It has never been so easy and simultaneously so challenging to be a musician and grow your music career! The good news is that if you are resourceful and make good use of all the great musicians’ tools out there, you are bound to be successful.…

How to Get Corporate Clients for Your Home Studio

This post is derived from a series Gary Gray wrote for Tunecore. Click here and here to read the original, full articles. Two years ago I came up with a five-year plan of how I was going to take an already consistently lucrative home…

How to Book Festival Gigs: Interview with Justin Ratowsky of Cali Conscious

For a lot of musicians, learning how to book festival gigs is the ultimate goal. Not only are festival gigs fun to play, they also present an incredible networking opportunity and a chance to reach a much bigger audience and grow your fanbase.…
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Spotify vs Radio

Streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are forever changing the way that people discover new music. In looking at Spotify vs Radio airplay you can clearly see some trends in the time it takes for a new song to find a market and the…

5 Ways to Keep Your Email Subscribers Engaged Without Spamming Them

Your email list is one of your most valuable assets when it comes to marketing your music. So it’s important to get email marketing right and keep your fans engaged. If you go months without sending anything to your email subscribers,…
How to use Facebook Live to Promote Your Music

How to Use Facebook Live to Promote Your Music

You’ve no doubt seen that little “Live” button on Facebook. Maybe you’ve even joined a Facebook Live video or seen other bands using Facebook Live. Right now, live video (on any platform) is one of the most powerful tools available…
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New Online Course – The Lucrative Home Studio

The Lucrative Home Studio will help you master the business, technical, and creative secrets of consistently producing professional radio-ready recordings. This 8 module online training program will take your production chops WAY beyond…

Build a Team for Music Success

Today, I'd like to talk about what it takes to build a team for music. As a musician, you've probably got more things to do than you have time in the day, right? You need to write, practice, play, rehearse, perform, and record. But…
How to sell more music with facebook live

Musicians: Here’s How to Sell More Music with Facebook Live

Facebook Live videos are getting a lot of attention recently. And with good reason - it's a great way to promote your music. And right now they are at the top of the algorithm in terms of reach and engagement. In other words, Facebook prioritizes…
5 ways to boost engagement on Facebook

5 Ways to Boost Facebook Engagement on Your Musician Page

Boost Facebook engagement and get more attention for your music With organic reach declining as a result of more content being shared, Facebook is largely becoming a pay to play platform. While this makes it harder to reach your fans without…

Music Industry Jobs of the Future

Music Industry Jobs of the Future Billboard recently posted an article about the music industry jobs of the future and it is fascinating and brilliant! The music industry jobs of the future are all about Storytelling, Playlisting, Content…
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How to Self Release An Album

One of the biggest questions I get all the time is "How do I self release an album?" The truth is, today it's easier than ever to release your own music without the help of a big record label. But, there's a difference between just releasing…
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The Future of Music Book and Podcast

The Future of Music - by Dave Kusek and Gerd Leonhard The Future of Music book is available in various forms.   You can buy the book on Amazon.   You can purchase the audiobook from Audible.   You can listen…
6 Songwriting Tips

Help! I’m Writing a Song – 6 Songwriting Tips to Write Your Next Hit

Writing a song might sound like a fairly easy thing to accomplish, and sometimes it can be. But not every time. Sure, there are only 11 notes in the scale, but there are a seemingly infinite amount of combinations waiting to be discovered.…
How to sell more music with landing pages

How to Sell More Music with Landing Pages

Today I want to talk to you about selling more music. (Or merch… Or tickets.) More specifically, I want to key you in on one of the most effective ways to get fans to take that next step and support you. Surprisingly enough, this tool…
10 Ways to Grow Your Email List for Musicians

Musicians: Here’s 10 Ways to Grow Your Email List

As an indie musician, if you don’t have an email list (or you have one and never use it), you’re shooting yourself in the foot. So today, we're talking about growing your email list. Compared to social media - where most of your posts…
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Advice for Writers and Other Creative Entrepreneurs

A massive shift in the publishing business is empowering today’s writers and creative entrepreneurs in ways that were simply not possible in years past. Reaching readers directly has never been easier, and the writers who know how to take…
Make Money from Music Licensing

Sync Licensing: The ONLY 3 Things You Need to Make Money

A lot of musicians see music licensing and sync licensing as this big, super-intimidating goal. Maybe you feel like you need to have a publisher before you can start. Or perhaps it seems like you need to have a catalog of at least 50…
Content marketing for musicians

Content Marketing for Musicians: How to Get More Superfans

Marketing and promoting your music is a task every musician has to face throughout their career. But it’s also the one thing many musicians wish they never had to do again. With all the noise out there it can really feel like no one's…

Make money in music and explore the Future of Music with Dave Kusek and the New Artist Model for independent musicians and indie artists. Make money in music via this future music blog. Learn about the music business from how to get on spotify playlists to instagram for musicians to how to promote your music and get your music licensed. Learn the best way to promote your music, music marketing and music career success strategies through the New Artist Model approach. Discover tips and strategies and techniques that you can use to advance your music career.  Find ways to book more shows and gigs, learn about copyright, licensing and music publishing, record labels, music marketing, music news, music website, musician success, merchandise, management, performing, songwriting and recording in this music blog. If you want to be a musician and make money in music the you must learn how to promote your music online and develop online press kits visit this future music blog now and learn about music marketing, online music promotion and how to promote your music.