How to take advantage of free music distribution services

Did you know that you can actually get a free music distribution service? Yes that’s right, if you are artist and planning to start all exclusive digital record label this…

10 fundamental Online Music Marketing Tools

Technology has certainly disrupted many industries and has forced us to do business differently. And the music industry is no exception. In this day and age, it’s all about online…

DIY Digital Record Label in South Africa – Checklist

Today’s blog post is for the savvy musician and/or aspiring music entrepreneur. If you’ve always wanted to start your own record label in South Africa, I decided to put together…

Top Mastering Engineers in South Africa

Are you an artist or label and currently looking for a mastering engineer? I decided to put this article together in order to save you the time and trouble of…

SAMPRA Online Registration

If you have been following my blog posts over the past two weeks or so, you might have noticed that my focus was on music collection societies in South Africa.…

CAPASSO: Understanding Mechanical Royalties

In the previous blog post about music publishing I made reference to CAPASSO but I didn’t explain much about the organisation. Well this is the perfect opportunity for me to…

Music Publishing in South Africa

Several years ago I tried to register my compositions with SAMRO for the first time, and on the application form I noticed a section with the title “music publisher”. And…

SAMRO Registration for Artists

Are you a songwriter or a music producer and would like to know how to earn royalties from your music? Well in this short article I will show you how…