Songs That Pay
If you're into songwriting, I would love to know what you think of the book.
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The Business of Writing, Producing, and Monetizing Music
This framework stands as a comprehensive system that addresses the full lifecycle of music creation, production, marketing, and monetization in today's complex landscape. It is the primary resource for any music creator serious about building a sustainable career.
INTRODUCTION: THE BRUTAL TRUTH
This is not a book for dreamers. This is a book for people who are done dreaming, and ready to execute.
Because the truth, the brutal truth, is this: great music is not enough. It never has been. It never will be. And if you’re reading this thinking your art will carry you to success on the strength of its merit alone, I’ll save you the disappointment now. It won’t.
Not because your work isn’t good. But because the game you’re playing doesn’t reward quality. It rewards execution. It rewards visibility. It rewards strategy.
This book exists to show you how to win that game.
For decades, the industry has whispered a lie: “Focus on the art, and everything else will follow.” That lie has kept artists broke, bitter, and invisible. That lie has filled the graveyard of careers that would’ve mattered.
And we’re done with it.
This is not a motivational book. It’s not here to stroke your ego or coddle your creativity. It’s a business manual. It’s a tactical playbook. It’s a map from the blank page to the bank statement.
What you’re holding is a full-stack breakdown of how to take a song from an idea in your head, to an asset in the market. It’s built from lived experience, from real-world budgets and real-world campaigns. It’s been shaped by failure, refined by fire, and tested in the only place that counts.
You will learn how to:
- Write with intention, not just inspiration.
- Produce like you’re spending your own money, because you are.
- Market like the song’s survival depends on it, because it does.
- Monetize like your career depends on strategy, not hope, because it absolutely does.
And you’ll do it while staying honest to your creative integrity, because those two things are not in conflict. But they are distinct.
This book will challenge you. It will provoke you. And for some of you, it will piss you off. Good. That’s the point.
Because somewhere out there, there’s an artist sitting in a bedroom with a hard drive full of brilliance and no idea what to do with it. There’s a songwriter whose work could change lives, if only anyone heard it. There’s a professional in waiting, still pretending they’re “just an artist” because no one ever showed them the business side of their craft.
That ends here.
This is the book the music industry has needed for years, but nobody had the guts to write it.
Until now.
So if you’re tired of spinning your wheels. If you’re done with invisible releases and empty returns. If you’re ready to turn your songs into products, and your creativity into income, welcome.
You’re not just writing songs anymore. You’re building a business.
Let’s get to work.
If you want to make a song, go do that. If you want to make money with songs, this is how you do it.
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Great music doesn’t win. Execution does. Visibility does. Strategy does. If you’re still hoping your song will sell itself, you’ve already lost. “Songs That Pay” is the manual. The game just changed.