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PRS & MCPS
The MCPS-PRS Alliance exists to collect and pay royalties to its members when their music is recorded and made available to the public in many formats e.g. CD's and when their music is performed, broadcast or otherwise made publicly available e.g. radio. You can find lots of useful information or join via the website.
http://www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk
Musicians' Union
The Musicians\' Union is the largest organisation for musicians in the UK and our services can save you more than the cost of membership.
The MU offers a wide variety of services and assistance to its members including careers & business advice, legal Assistance, rights protection, contract advisory service, networking opportunities, industry lists & leaflets, public liability cover, courses, seminars and workshops.
http://www.musiciansunion.org.uk
1Xtra
Playing the latest in new Black music.
Red Bull Music Academy
The Red Bull Music Academy brings together DJs and music producers from diverse musical and cultural backgrounds to exchange their ideas about music and their knowledge of how life in the music industry works.
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/
Princes' Trust Music
Prince’s Trust Music Publishing is a professional music publisher with a unique difference- it enables your music to change young lives across the UK. The business is run by a professional team headed by Mike Cobb with years of industry experience. The company’s catalogue is administered internationally by BMG Music. Unlike other publishers PT Music applies its publisher share exclusively back to supporting The Prince's Trust’s charitable work across the UK as well as offering a commercially competitive service. We are the only “good-cause” music publisher in the UK. Unlike other good causes we offer a commercial service to our composers so that you receive not only your composer share in full, but also access to unique commercial outlets which only The Trust can deliver.
http://www.princes-trust.org.uk/Main%20Site%20v2/about%20us/Princes%20Trust%20Music.asp
Association of Independent Music (AIM)
AIM represent, promote and protect the interests of all the 2,000 independent music companies in the UK.
BBC Music
Resource of information on radio, television and online music.
British Academy of Composers and Songwriters (BACS)
The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters hold information on potential markets for new compositions.
British Music Rights (BMR)
BMR works to promote the interests of the UK’s composers, songwriters and music publishers and aims to ensure that Britain continues to have a world leading music business.
British Phonographic Industry (BPI)
The BPI represents over 200 record companies in the UK and its members produce most of the country’s recorded music. It ranges from small independent to multinational corporations. The BPI’s main aim is to help create an environment in which the British music business can thrive and remain a world leader.
Live Music Now
Aims:
- to provide young musicians with paid performance opportunities and support professional development at the start of their careers.
- to help people access the joy of live music in venues such as schools for children with special needs, centres for adults with physical and learning disabilities, homes for older people, young offenders institutions, prisons, hospitals and hospices.
Making Music
Making music represent and support over 2,000 amateur music groups throughout the UK, including choirs, orchestras and music promoters.
Music Managers Forum
Managers who join the MMF are joining a worldwide network of professionals dedicated to delivering first class management services to the artistic community drawing from a wide variety of genres. From organising discounts to industry events and services to lobbying on your and your artist's behalf at UK and European level to protect your rights the MMF will help support you whatever your level of management experience.
http://www.musicmanagersforum.co.uk/
The Music Publishers Association
The Music Publishers Association (MPA) looks after the interest of all music publishers based or working in the UK and exists to safeguard and improve the business and legal environment within which its members are operating.
Radio 1
Popular Music information and links
Sound Junction
A collaboration between DCMS and Associated Board of Music providing access to information on the creation and performance of music across genres
http://www.soundjunction.org/default.aspa
Society for the Promotion of New Music
The aim of the society is to promote new music both in the performance and composition of contemporary music. It provides various music prizes.
The White Book
The essential A - Z online reference site for the event industry. whitebook.co.uk brings all the information available in the directory to you at the click of your mouse.
Karen P - Podcast Queen
Karen P Productions is a new audio production and marketing company.
We produce audio programming in any format from terrestrial or digital radio through mobile and online radio, streaming, downloads and podcasts.
We put together forward looking audio marketing campaigns, whether it’s radio or content syndication or communicating with your market using the broadest range of audio tools available today.
PPL (Phonographic Performance Limited)
PPL (Phonographic Performance Limited) is a music industry organisation collecting and distributing airplay and public performance royalties in the UK on behalf of over 3,500 record companies and 47,000 performers.
We issue licences to UK radio and television stations, other broadcasters and internet radio stations who use sound recordings (records, tapes, CDs) in their transmissions. We also license clubs, shops, pubs, restaurants, bars and grills and thousands of other music users who play sound recordings in public. The PPL licence enables them to play literally millions of sound recordings.
All licence fees that we collect are distributed to the owner of the sound recording copyright (usually the record company responsible for producing the track) as well as the qualifying performers who performed on the recording.
New Music Strategies
New Music Strategies is a site dedicated to helping independent musicians and music businesses adapt and thrive in the online environment. You can also download the ebook \'The 20 things you need to know about music online\' on our Industry Information page.
http://www.newmusicstrategies.com
The Penniless Podcaster
This is a blog run by radio producer Jason Phipps and film maker Stuart Silver dedicated to finding, testing and teaching ways to podcast and distribute audio/video on the web for free.
http://thepennilesspodcaster.blogspot.com/
Midem - The World's Music Market
Never has there been such demand for music. By putting you in direct contact with nearly 10,000 music and technology professionals from over 90 different countries, MIDEM connects you with the players matching this unprecedented demand.
Delegates from the recording, publishing, live, digital, mobile and branding sectors will gather in Cannes to do deals, network, learn and check out new talent.
In The City
In The City - The International Music Convention has become the date in the music industry calendar.
RWD Magazine
The key to the underground, RWD is the most forward-thinking, trend-setting, ground-breaking youth lifestyle title in the UK. For everything hot-and not- you need RWD in your life. From music to sport, fashion to film, RWD covers cutting edge modern culture aimed at 14 to 24 year olds.
VPL (Video Performance Ltd)
VPL is the collecting society set up by the record industry in 1984 to grant licences to users of music videos, eg. broadcasters, programme-makers, video jukebox system suppliers.
Whoever owns the rights in a music video can become a member – membership is free – and the licence fee income we collect from users is paid out to our members (after deduction of admin costs).
We currently have approximately 900 members – from the major record companies to the smallest independents - and 50,000 music videos registered with us.