Wendy Day, who has spent 24 years in the music industry, launches a YouTube channel to teach artists how to make money. She'll cover hiring managers and lawyers, getting on Spotify playlists, and registering with performance-rights organizations like ASCAP and BMI. New episodes drop Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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Hey, how you doing guys? Thanks for tuning in. I'm so excited to be doing this, and big shout out to Jordan Tower for helping me get started and talking me into this. Um, on my channel— and thank you for joining me, make sure you hit subscribe— um, we're going to be talking about the music industry and how you can make money with your music. We're going to talk about how to successfully become an artist, how to make money as an artist, and how to navigate the new music business. I'm really excited about this. This has been a long time coming, and it's a topic that's near and dear to my heart. I've been doing this for 24 years. Yes, I'm old. And I've been able to build a pretty successful career doing this. I've gotten to work with some amazing people, and I want to share that knowledge with you guys. I want you to have a complete understanding of how to choose a manager, how do you pick an attorney, how do you build a team, how do you put your own music out into the marketplace, how do you get on Spotify playlists, how do you join ASCAP and BMI, and what are they, what's SESAC, do you need to sign up for SoundExchange? These are all the types of things that we're going to be talking about Um, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and probably every Wednesday I'm gonna let you guys ask questions and go live so that I can answer some of the questions that you have about the music industry, because I want to keep this as relevant and interesting as possible. So again, thanks for joining me. Make sure you hit subscribe because I would love to have you as part of this. Follow me on Twitter, follow me on Instagram @rapcoalition. And whatever you guys would like to do, make sure you ask me questions, and I'm gonna answer as many of your questions as I can. And thank you so much for everything, and we will get started soon. And then do I hit—