Many of you are musicians, songwriters, bands, lead singers
etc, and being in the business, you work with a lot of people. The more projects you work on, the more you
have to protect your interests as it’s only a matter of time before that HIT
record comes along!
With that said, when you complete a project in the
foreground, the background aka the BUSINESS side of the song should look like
this:
Each person who composed music that resulted in the finished
piece gets a percentage ie: Composer 1 ‘X’
% | Composer 2 ‘X’ % | Composer 3 ‘X’ % | Composer 4 ‘X’ %
Each person who wrote the lyrics that make up the song gets
a percentage ie: Writer 1 ‘X’ % | Writer
2 ‘X’ % | Writer 3 ‘X’ % | Writer 4 ‘X’ %
Each person who contributed to the overall production of the
track ie: Producer | Engineer | Engineer
Assistant | Recording Location | Arranger | Background Vocals | Mixer | Drums |
Lead Guitar | Keyboards | Bass | Publishing (the name of the publishing company
each contributor is signed with).
If your music business behind the scenes does not look like
this, I suggest you tweak the areas that are missing. Several of you want to be in GRAMMY /
American Music Awards contention, and the above is an example of what these
organizations look at when artists / bands submit.
