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Essentials of Music Management
Full of tips and insights from leading music practitioners, including some of the world’s most successful and entrepreneurial music managers, this Essentials Guide offers the perfect grounding for building a sustainable business that will help you and your artist, songwriter and producer clients succeed.
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Dissecting the Digital Dollar
A series of reports, guides and tools from the Music Managers Forum designed to help artists and managers better understand the streaming business, and the impact the shift to digital has had on the wider music industry.
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Managing Expectations 2021
In December 2021, the MMF published the second part of their Managing Expectations series, focussing this time on producer and songwriter management. The new edition comes at a time of intense focus around this specific sector of the business – including ongoing debates around streaming revenue splits for songwriters, the rise of new-generation publishing companies, the investment boom in audio-visual content, or the growing recognition by financial markets of song catalogues as an “asset class”.
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MMF Research Report Breakdown April 2024
Recently the MMF held a session with our Board summarising key audience insights for music managers from publicly available research. The session resulted in the production of an overview document, highlighting key takeaways from recent industry reports.
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Women & Equalities Select Committee – Misogyny in Music Report
The findings of the report make important but difficult reading, and the Committee has made 28 recommendations covering a wide range of issues - including a proposal that music managers, studios, venues and security staff should be subject to mandatory licensing requirements.
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Women in CTRL ‘Seat at the Table’ Report
In a landmark moment for the UK music industry, the launch by Women in CTRL of their 2024 Seat at the Table report marks a pivotal turning point as representation of women on UK music trade association boards has risen to 52%. This reflects substantial progress since the inaugural 2020 report, where women held just 32% of seats.
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EMMA Music Management in Europe Report
EMMA has produced the first ever European report on the management sector. It explores the opportunities and challenges faced by music managers in Europe when developing the creative businesses of artists, songwriters and other music makers.
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Music Ally Sandbox Campaigns of the Year 2023
The 2023 issue of Music Ally's Music Marketing Campaigns of the Year report. With 50 highly-detailed case studies, it is a huge, vital resource for anyone working in music marketing. It’s packed with data, case studies, KPIs, learnings and inspiration.
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Entourage Pro: Insights Brexit/Pandemic Impact Report
A report which provides a clear overview of the obstacles and challenges the music-touring community has faced during the past 4 years.
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Digital Burnout Report
The MMF noticed a large number of members expressing their personal experiences with digital burnout. Mark Mulligan of Midia also published this piece, and most recently Rhian Jones wrote about digital burnout on artists in The Guardian. In response to this surge, to better understand and help find solutions, the MMF held two roundtables with over 40 managers on digital burnout. This report outlines the findings of the roundtables.
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The Economics of Streaming Debate
The Economics of Streaming Debate – by the CMU
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