Importance of Publishing

Publishing

            Publishing is a very important in the music industry, but it seems this in one of the most looked over aspects of artist in their career.  Publishing is one of the main reasons artist back in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s ended up losing everything they worked hard for.  Or publishing is the reason that groups like the Temptations had to always keep touring because they did not write or publish any of the music they performed.   In today’s music industry there is not a reason to go through what artists of those time period went through because the Internet allows one to do their research.  But believe it or not some artist are so excited to get a deal that they do not pay attention to what type of contract they are getting into.  People in the music industry understand that they do not make money off of an artist selling music in today’s music industry.  But record labels are still well aware that publishing still makes money like it did back in the day.   

            So a few things an artist should do while making their music.  The first and foremost important step is to copyright all of their music.  This is very important to protect themselves from having their hard work stolen from them.  But I find the problem with independent artist is they do not want to do the research to this and to make sure they are doing this correctly.  A lot of independent artist are just concerned with performing and putting their music out there, and not realizing that they can be setting themselves up for failure.   My advice to every independent artist make sure you copyright your material, and look into get your music published.  As an artist you can make a lot of money by publishing your work and selling it to well known artist in the industry.  And all you did was a write a song, something you do everyday.

Kellie B.