I wanted to tell you about my new book, aimed at unsigned musicians just like you. It's called "How To Get Your Music in Film & TV" and is the only book of its kind. Published by Music Sales (the largest publisher of music books in the world) it gives you all the information you need to find Film & TV projects that are looking for music from unsigned artists ... and then tells you how to sell it to them.

The MCPS, The Harry Fox Agency and others, collect and distribute 'mechanical' royalties generated from the recording of music onto CD, DVD and other "mechanical devices".

BMI, ASCAP, PRS and the many other similar organisations around the World collects license fees for the public performance & broadcast of musical works: they are known as "Performing Rights Organisations" (PRO's for short).

There are two kinds of Publishing deal: a single-song assignment and an exclusive agreement.

Production Music - often known as Library Music - is not for use or sale to the general public: it is purely intended for professional usage in TV, Advertising, Corporate communications & similar businesses. It is invariably instrumental.

Many people put in too much information when writing a biography - or at least, too much of the wrong kind of information !!

When an Artist is signed to a Record or Publishing deal, on one level or another it will be because of their personality as well as their music. So, a biography needs to be a reflection of the person and their music.

There are many things that you can do which will almost certainly NOT lead to being heard by an A&R department !! Yet, many people do them.

A&R literally stands for "Artist & Repertoire".