Music Biz 2017

Metadata is all that information that identifies and describes your music. In some cases, metadata is text like composer and musician names, recording dates, genre. In other cases, it’s numeric data like UPC barcodes and ISRC codes. As the music landscape becomes increasingly digital and global — and where success is measured in streams and plays in addition to sales — proper metadata management is becoming an important part of every release workflow. Proper metadata ensures that you are compensated for your work. If your metadata isn’t correct, you aren’t getting paid! You already may be losing money!

Whether you are an artist, manager, songwriter or producer, come join us for a review of ISRC, ISWC, ISNI and UPC codes; a discussion of how you can take primary control of your metadata; and a demonstration of resources from Jammber, Music Reports and ProMusicDB that can help you properly document your assets. The balance of the session will review the revenue flow for digital downloads, on-demand streaming and non-interactive streaming.

An infographic co-produced by the Steering Committee for this session – Future of Music Coalition, Jammber, Music Reports and ProMusicDB – will be distributed during the session, providing revenue flow charts for those discussed today as well as public performances, synch and YouTube