Starting your own music label is a thrilling venture, but it’s not without its challenges. It's best to go into this ...

While accounts of the “death of the music industry” have been ... influence needed to both produce and push a record. In a typical record label contract, the record label pays all of the ...

On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey ...

You can do the Dick Clark thing as head of your own record (or more properly nowadays, CD) label ... You should have a good working knowledge of how the music business operates.

While social media certainly disrupted the music business, it didn’t uproot the traditional record label model. There have been numerous other game-changers over the years that failed — on ...

By night, he’s a music industry crusader – digging up obscure gems and persuading record labels to make them available ... on Strictly Come Dancing. “Good spot,” was the reply.

"Music discovery used to be governed from the top down," says Cirisano. "Record labels would ... then an independent label may be a really, really good option. "If what you're looking to do ...