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What Caribbean musicians need to know about royalties
In a recent public post on Facebook, Soca artist Militant shared his annual royalty statement from the Copyright Music Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago (COTT). It showed that his net earnings for the year [...]
Do More in 2024: 5 Steps to Take Action with Your Music
By Farley J. Joseph |Founder, DianJen A new year is always a great time to look at where you are in the music industry and create your key goals for improving what you [...]
Are you a Market Ready Caribbean Artist? 7 Things to Consider
By Farley J. Joseph |Founder, DianJen Recently, I received a copy of the book Rethinking the Music Business as one of the prizes for winning the best paper award at the Young Scholars [...]
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6 Ways Caribbean Artists Make Money from Music
Many in the Caribbean dream of being full-time musicians! However, over the past decade, one of the most pressing questions we have received from artists during our training programmes is: How do I make [...]
5 Career Killing Mistakes Caribbean Artists are Making Pt. 1
Having trained hundreds of upcoming artists in music business and music production since our launch in 2009, several have come to us with complaints that they are not receiving radio airplay or they have [...]
Our Music Industry Needs Incentives
The news that customs duty exemptions were extended for energy companies until 2020, as reported in the Express on 16th December 2017 is positive. So too, the report that Parliament passed a motion for similar exemptions for the [...]
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