Publishers--Music

Information on music publishers can be found under this Yellow Pages® heading. Music publishers organise marketing of vocal and instrumental music. They manage the commercial aspects of music marketing. A music publisher also tries to find songwriters for singers and vice versa. He/She launches a song, promotes it, supervises revenue collection and pays royalty to song writers. Music print publishers also supervise the issue of songbooks and sheet music by their artists. If you are looking for music publishers in Australia, Yellow Pages® will help you find them.

Music publishers are also known as copyright administrators. A music publisher is the person responsible for ensuring that music compositions generate revenue. When a musician signs a contract with a music publisher, the latter undertakes to promote and market his music. A publisher who has a signed contract from a singer, musician or songwriter can approach music companies to make records and sell them in the market. The contract states the number of songs that must be written or sung, the advance and royalty that the artist would receive, what the publisher’s share would be and other relevant details.

A music publisher possesses in-depth knowledge of the music industry and can therefore help aspiring artists to have their music published and earn money and recognition. Apart fro his knowledge of the music industry a music publisher also helps an artist with the help of his contacts in the industry. Interestingly the term music publisher originally referred (before the growth of recorded music and popular music) to publishers who issued printed sheet music but this usage is almost redundant today.Yellow Pages® lists music publishers in Australia along with their phone numbers and addresses.