Self-Publishing: 'Ways to get your music published yourself'

In my previous post I talked about what publishing is and highlighted some of the big named music publishers in the industry, and today I want to continue on this topic by showing you ways of how you can publish your music yourself through “self-publishing”. In this technologically run world new platforms and mediums exists that enables us to do, by ourselves, what we never could before, such as recording and producing a complete song on our laptops and self-publishing without the help of a record label or major publisher.

Top Music Publishers

In my previous post I talked about famous artists and their managers and the responsibilities that fall under the scope of being a "manager". In this post I will be talking about another big part of the industry, ‘publishing’. This topic will be split into two posts, and in this post I will discuss who some of the major music publishers are and explain what publishing really means.

Before the print media and Internet revolution took place, music publishers made their money selling sheet music. “Today, music publishers are concerned with administering copyrights, licensing songs to record companies and others, and collecting royalties on behalf of the songwriter,” (Korn). One big thing to remember about music publishers is that they are not as concerned with the sound or quality of the work as they are with the money that could potentially be made from selling it.