libmgmt

Music Management | Liberate Music | Artist-Forward | [email protected] | @thedigilogue Community Curator | @Audiomack Verified Tastemaker🔌

[libmgmt @libmgmt]

11/18 NYC 🗽
11/19 BOS ☘️
11/20 PHILLY 🔔

[Z @BrianZisook]

Friends, we're hiring engineers for @Audiomack Studios.

If you're based in NYC and interested, or know someone who might be, please send me an email (in bio).

[Mike E @heymike]

Here are 9 tools anyone in music could build for themselves without any prior coding experience:

1. Release metadata extractor - paste a link, pull every ISRC, UPC, and credit in 30 seconds (the one I built).

2. Royalty tracking dashboard - aggregate distributor statements, P&L's, etc all in one place.

3. Social media posting schedule planner - calendar of what is getting posted and when.

4. Playlist pitch tracker - who you pitched, who passed, who added, and when to follow up.

5. Tour routing tool - pull your streaming data by city and map the most efficient run of dates.

6. Split sheet generator - fill in collaborators and percentages, export a clean signed-ready PDF.

7. Sync brief matcher - paste a music supervisor's brief, get your best-fitting tracks ranked.

8. Contract red-flag scanner - drop in a deal memo and get plain-English flags before you sign. (note: this does not replace proper legal counsel).

9. CRM - track your contacts across Gmail and other communication sources.

Anyone can literally build almost anything.

What's crazy is I used to pay for a CRM tool to organize my contacts...fast forward and over the past 30 days, I just built my own using my own dashboard, catered to my specific needs.

"I wish a tool did this" became "I can build a tool that does this"!

[Z @BrianZisook]

A manager told me their artist got a top-10 spot on a Spotify playlist with over 8M followers. In the first week, that led to 20,000 plays. If each play was unique, that’s about 0.25% of the people who follow the playlist! Editorial playlist share keeps shrinking to algorithmic.

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.

The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.

In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.

“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.

“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”

Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc

[Rob Abelow @AbelowRob]

Your monthly listeners don't care.
They're not your fans.

[Z @BrianZisook]

Some of the larger music management firms are taking on label services, supplementing or, in some cases, replacing the work of traditional label and distribution partners. I'm a proponent of the management-service model. Less friction, better alignment, quicker reaction time.

[Z @BrianZisook]

I’ve talked to several indie acts planning tours for this year, and many are now reconsidering. Between the TSA meltdown and rising gas prices ($4/gallon nationally), the math is getting harder to justify. Touring was already brutal for non-superstars, and now it’s even worse...

[Jacob Moore @CONFUSIONisDEAD]

Send us music! We listen.

[Z @BrianZisook]

There’s never been a better time in the history of recorded music to be an independent artist. You don’t need a label or radio to find an audience and foster community. The “industry” is not holding you back.

[untitledinbrackets @uuuntitleddd]

Also, we don’t take a cut from sellers.
Sellers only pay Stripe processing.
Buyers pay a 5% platform fee.

[Mike E @heymike]

MUSIC INDUSTRY PRO TIP - Being proactive, working hard, and staying ahead of the curve can put you ahead of a majority of the industry.

So many people working in music just want the optics of “looking cool” or having a job that seems fun.

[libmgmt @libmgmt]

@brianpolar @BrianZisook This haha

[Z @BrianZisook]

https://t.co/NK5R59mfPf

[libmgmt @libmgmt]

@BrianZisook Just hosted his album listening & merch pop-up in our backyard in silver lake and I’m so pumped for them rn! He’s a prolific artist plus @drewdrialo & the team around him deserve the moment, they’ve been putting the work in🦾👏

[Z @BrianZisook]

JMSN has been self-releasing music for 14 years. He writes, produces, and records his own songs (including “Love Me”) and tours independently. No major label. No machine. You should listen to more of his music instead of admitting you’re late.

[KayvanMD | join my discord! @Kayvanmd]

I just updated my "New Music, Who Dis?" playlist for independent and emerging artists.

This playlist updates EVERY SINGLE week and is FREE for you to submit your music to by using my release calendar (linktree). All genres are welcome, and I do this because I love supporting!

[KayvanMD | join my discord! @Kayvanmd]

I just updated my "New Music, Who Dis?" playlist for independent and emerging artists.

This playlist updates EVERY SINGLE week and is FREE for you to submit your music to by using my release calendar (linktree). All genres are welcome, and I do this because I love supporting!

[Z @BrianZisook]

Artists and their teams should spend at least 8-12 weeks planning and coordinating an album release. At least.