Any artist, producer, songwriters, etc. that work a "9 to 5" job while also pursuing their dream/passion, how do you still find the time, energy, and motivation to create, post, and engage after coming home from working a job that has exhausted you or has taken up most of your day? If any of you have any advice on this particular aspect of pursing a career in music, please share how you deal with it.

Below is a list of all the accounts needed to make sure you collect your credits and royalties. Each is a hyperlink that will lead you to the information needed to start registering for your accounts. This is a long process and can be quite repetitive, so to save you time, you should use a computer and a document creator (Like google docs) to copy and paste your songs information to it, so you have it for the next account that needs it, as well as it just being a good idea to have all this information stored anyway on a flash drive and in a cloud storage like Google Drive! While we all know it is important to continue to create and make music, you have to have your ducks in a row in order to maximize your earning potential. But, these should all be taken care of before releasing music or at least before releasing a ton of new music. 1. Allmusic 2. Amp By Pandora 3. Soundexchange 4. Soundscan 5. Nielsen BDS 6. Mediabase also Mediabase 7. Gracenote 8. Indie On The Move 9. Music Reports 10. Chart Metric 11. Apple Music for Artists 12. Spotify for Artists 13. Amazon Music for Artists

Been seeing a lot of threads on twitter and videos on YouTube about Chat GPT. Does anyone utilize this AI to assist with any of their music marketing? And if so, in what capacity?

I have been running into a situation where I will post my music video on my official artist channel and this message will show up on my videos : "Copyright-protected content found. The owner allows the content to be used on YouTube." Does anyone experience this and is it normal or a bad thing ? Would it be YouTube or my distributor that I reach out too? If it is an issue

Paid any shady promoters, got bots when you thought you were getting fans, or anything in between? Let's share some of the mistakes we've made so we can all learn from them.