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sperm to egg to life 🇬🇭 🎓Berklee College of Music 🎓St. John’s University

[Samaĝĝio⚡️👽 @Samaggio_X]

@BrianZisook A co pub is a 50/50 .. why would he wait for that over an admin deal

[Samaĝĝio⚡️👽 @Samaggio_X]

@BrianZisook To pass up an admin deal where the pub gets paid like 10 to 25% to collect on your behalf just to miss out on 100% of your own publishing is music business ignorance

[Samaĝĝio⚡️👽 @Samaggio_X]

Kobalt is way ahead of its time @kobalt

[Samaĝĝio⚡️👽 @Samaggio_X]

I’m torn between being a broccoli floret or a celery stalk for Halloween

[Z @BrianZisook]

With a heavy emphasis on algorithmically-engineered personalized recommendations across the music industry, @Audiomack is doubling down on and prioritizing human curation. We're excited to launch new tools for all curators in our tastemaker program!

[Samaĝĝio⚡️👽 @Samaggio_X]

@BrianZisook @audiomack This looks kinda cool Brian 💯

[LaRussell @LaRussellGC]

It takes millions to become a successful artist, even more when you're independent and spending ya own paper 🙏🏾.

This is not easy or cheap. This is just 90 days of advertising on ONE platform to make sure our art is seen, heard, and felt globally. This don't include seeding, clipping, youtube, Spotify campaigns, etc. If you're competing against a machine, you have to build your own machine. The reason I've been able to get as big as some major artist is because I treat and invest in myself like a major artist.

This is why it's important to buy direct and support your favorite artists outside of streaming, especially if they're independent 🙏🏾🙏🏾

[Samaĝĝio⚡️👽 @Samaggio_X]

@MLanesss @just_ketra For real? I thought he still has full ownership of his master recordings

[Samaĝĝio⚡️👽 @Samaggio_X]

Chris Brown’s touring success has nothing to do with the publishing you think you deserve.

If you’re not getting your royalty payments on songs you wrote you’re forced to accept the reality. It’s possible you didn’t negotiate great splits or your publisher is trash. Pick up the phone and try to renegotiate something favorable.

Concert money and merch go to the performer, not the writer.

Songwriters are paid from publishing income only they don’t share in ticket sales, tour sponsorships, or master recording royalties (unless they negotiated it). The artist may be doing $90M in touring, but that’s unrelated to publishing. Unless the writer is also a producer or performer with master points, there’s no participation in that revenue stream.

Another reason could be that the writer took a songwriter advance and still hasn’t recouped. Can’t entirely blame Chris though.

[Z @BrianZisook]

People often ask me why I care so much. Allow me to explain.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Travis Kelce is teaming up with an activist group to invest in and revive Six Flags.

[Samaĝĝio⚡️👽 @Samaggio_X]

Black media was born to tell our truth when the world wouldn’t listen. Now it too often echoes the same harm it was built to resist. Sad.

[Samaĝĝio⚡️👽 @Samaggio_X]

@BrianZisook Every formula is different. What works for one doesn’t have to work for all. Most executives are taking a chance. It’s a bet. Typical capitalism.

[Samaĝĝio⚡️👽 @Samaggio_X]

I found out my arcuate fasciculus is really big and thick

[Samaĝĝio⚡️👽 @Samaggio_X]

It must be hard being a public figure and anytime you’re mentioned it’s some random stranger telling you what you need to do. They’re not experts or professionals just some randoms sitting in a heap of shxt IRL

[Ag ժ��ׅ݊ꫀׁׅܻꫀׁׅܻյ⋆𖦹｡°✩ @TheAliengorl]

All da same shiiddd😛😛

[Samaĝĝio⚡️👽 @Samaggio_X]

@aliengorlTV Sad kid bubble kid same kid 🔥🔥🔥

[Samaĝĝio⚡️👽 @Samaggio_X]

The mistake most new artists make it thinking they can just record and post. You still need to plan a proper roll out. Give yourself some lead time to make sure the right mediums know what’s coming through the pipeline. So even in the digital age of music where music is instant, you run a better well oiled independent machine when you can prepare what might seem to the gp as instantaneous releases.

The goal is to make it look spontaneous but it actually takes a lot of planning and choreography.

[Samaĝĝio⚡️👽 @Samaggio_X]

When y’all see an album extremely discounted it might be worse than you think. In the streaming age artists are paid a royalty based on the wholesale price not the suggested retail listed price (SRLP) so albums are sold wholesale for cheap to distributors so when you see an album listed at $4.99 (retail price) it was likely sold for less to the distributor (in wholesale) and the distributor listed the album at a higher rate to make a profit.

The royalty rate on the album (for new artists) is in the 16-20% range) so whatever was the wholesale price for that album, the artist is getting 16-20% per album sold. Multiply that by the amount of pure sales they did.

It’s far worse with singles cus the artist can typically only get 3/4 of their royalty rate for singles. So if you’re getting 16 points on an album you’re getting 12 points in singles.

This ain’t the case for more seasoned artists, but if you were signed almost 10 years ago and you’re still on 1 or 2 albums, at the same company, most likely you’re still living up to the same obligations and deal you had when you were a new artist. That sucks big time. That means an artist who has been in the game over 5 years but has only delivered 1 one album is still getting peanuts in royalties unless they renegotiate the terms and provisions in their contract.

You can look at an artist and know right away what those provisions are looking like. For artists today to still be falling into these types of contracts after everything Prince fought for is just plain sad.

[Samaĝĝio⚡️👽 @Samaggio_X]

@tyroneJoestaar @YungSeti The whole plot of gaining super powers while incarcerated due to some science experiment is a bit much