Family coach | Music entrepreneur + Recording Artist l Audio mixing & Mastering Engineer. | I'm building a local discovery engine for musical artists
Lagos, Nigeria
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She asked me which of her songs suits a gym.
An Afropop singer joined Radiance Audio this morning. Song 23. One gym in Ogba has said yes. When her track plays there, she'll see when, how often and for how long.
Nothing is playing in a venue yet.
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A song without a way to reach d artist is just a file.
I said that yesterday to a Nigerian publisher & distributor, on a call about hw artists actually get paid.
He offered to compile a catalogue of artists he has recorded, about 50-500 songs, with ISRCs and UPCs attached.
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Every one of the 22 we hold came with the artist's own declaration for exactly that reason.
One gym in Ogba has said yes. Nothing plays there that the artist didn't agree to.
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Artists, publishers, rights holders,how would u want consent &payment handled? Reply and I'll bring it to the next conversation.
PS. I co-produced this track, recorded, mixed & mastered it
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I own 1 song in the Radiance Audio catalogue.
There are 22 in the library now. The other 21 belong to other artists. I can't license any of them to a venue without the people who hold the rights.
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It doesn't tell me how the artist gets paid once I do.
Nothing is playing in a venue yet. Before anything does, I want to understand that part properly.
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Every number in the app is measured.
plays, hours, timestamps. One isn't.
My rule: never let an unmeasured number travel under a word that means measurement.
"Verified" goes. Artists should trust the whole record.
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I gave three people the same deadline.. a working system by 20 November. Not a design.
Two turned up to the meeting. One didn't. All three had already sent me something that looked like the app.
Here's what that taught me.
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So my test isn't the demo.
Play a track. Show me where the play went. Then log in as the artist on a different device and find it.
Whoever can do that gets the work. Whoever can't gets a smaller job, or nothing.
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Eight days left. Nineteen songs waiting. One gym that said yes and is still waiting for me to keep a promise.
Let's see who ships.
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19 songs. 14 artists. Catalogue #001 is mine.
I went first because I wouldn't ask 13 artists to trust a process I hadn't put my own work through.
Nothing plays in a venue yet. One artist sent 5, one sent 2, eleven sent 1.
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Seventeen songs in at Radiance Audio, and most of what I've built this week is paperwork. Every artist signs a declaration B4 their track goes anywhere. The master is theirs
Samples & beats are cleared
We can play it in participating venues
They get credited.
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They can pull it with 14 days' notice.
Why?
Because a lot of independent records here sit on beats nobody papered.
I won't have a gym playing a song I can't explain the rights to.
So the number I care about isn't 17. It's 17 songs with a signature behind them.
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One surprise: one artist sent 5 of them. The serious ones send a body of work, not a single song. That's who I'm going after next.
The goal...a playlist a gym can trust, and an artist who can say "my song played there, and this many people heard it."
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