Building a Successful 21st Century Music Career

Your career in music begins today: decide to begin your career and you're off. Don't wait for a record company to call and offer you a contract, because they won't. All you need to do is decide to start your career.

Building a Successful 21st Century Music Career is about how you can proactively start, and manage, your own music career so that you can earn your living through making music -- whether as a musician playing pop, rock, soul, R&B, classical or any other style of music; as a songwriter or composer; or as a producer. In particular, the book focuses on two aspects:

• The options that are available to you to develop a sustainable career with the realities of the twenty-first century marketplace.
   
• A plan of action to proactively make your career happen. In other words, taking the range of options and making the right choices to ensure you succeed. Without a coherent, unified strategy, all you have are bits and pieces of dreams and hopes.

The book begins with a look at the changes the music industry has faced in the last few years which have broken the conventional twentieth century music industry thinking -- iTunes, the collapse of the CD market, cheap home recording, etc. -- and the new opportunities that these changes have introduced. It then moves on and looks at how to build and keep a fan base and use its spending power to make money.

Building a Successful 21st Century Music Career also shows you the economic realities of how to make money making music, the benefits and drawbacks of signing a record deal, making a career out of music, and much, much more.

This is perhaps the most thorough guide to starting and maintaining a music career, and should be on every musician's bookshelf!

Further resources

A list of the books referred to in Building a Successful 21st Century Music Career is available here.

Where to get the book

Building a Successful 21st Century Music Career is available from Amazon. Follow these links for details (click on the cover image):