Music Money and Success : The Insider's Guide to Making Money in the Music Business

The Insider's Guide to Making Money in the Music Business is the industry bible and the ultimate guide to making money in the music business.

Music is a business of money, contracts, decisions and making the most of every opportunity. To succeed—to make money—to have a career—you have to know what you are doing in both music and business.

This invaluable book tells you how the business works, what you must know to succeed, and how much money you can make in films, television, video games, ASCAP, BMI and SESAC, record sales, downloads and streams, advertising, ringtones and ringbacks, interactive toys and dolls, Broadway, new media, scoring contracts and synch licenses, music publishing, foreign countries, and much more.

This indispensable reference is written by industry insiders Todd Brabec, Educator, Entertainment Law Attorney and former ASCAP Executive Vice President and Worldwide Director of Membership, and Jeff Brabec, Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs, BMG.

Jeff Brabec, Vice President Business & Legal Affairs for BMG, is an Entertainment Law attorney, Deems Taylor Award winning writer for excellence in music journalism and Adjunct Professor at USC where he teaches Music Publishing, Licensing and Film, Television and Video Game song and scoring contracts. Former recording artist, he is a graduate of the New York University School of Law.

Todd Brabec, former ASCAP Executive Vice President and Worldwide Director of Membership is an Entertainment Law attorney, Deems Taylor Award winning writer for excellence in music journalism and Adjunct Professor at USC where he teaches Music Publishing, Licensing and Film, Television and Video Game song and scoring contracts. Former recording artist, he is a graduate of the New York University School of Law.