Hi NADRIP, Happy Friday and hope you had a good week:)  Keith has actually started working with T.A.P. which is an arm of World Fusion Music Productions LLC. I meet with him to discuss best publishing strategies and business plans for the music. He is helping us get T.A.P. better organized as of last month. I am much relieved to have his help! He explained to me why I needed to own the ISRC code and the UPC code. I had no idea this was necessary. He explained in great detail and convinced me so now we own both. WFMP is putting on, sponsoring, this event in July for him because I have come to believe his knowledge can help other artists. I am part of the independent artist movement and see that the biggest problem among us is our lack of business sense and understanding of the details of how this crazy music business actually works. I personally am a business woman and have been in clothing, pet products, art & framing and equine events and services but have not yet encountered an industry as complicated and inefficient as the music industry in the way the actual creator gets paid. I am thankful to be part of the movement in building new models that are slowly going to change things to make things more simple and straight forward when it comes to paying us artists. I would suggest you come to the event in July or better yet reach out directly to Keith. He is a very nice guy and a strong artist advocate. ... View more

Oh, actually I have a related question!  I understand that interactive streams (Pandora Plus + Pandora Premium) are paid to my distributor, and, in fact, I do get some Pandora payments to my distributor, but I also understand that non-interactive streams (Pandora Radio aka Pandora free / ad supported) are paid to SoundExchange.  The problem is that I have never, ever gotten any payments from Pandora to SoundExchange.   Why is that? ... View more

So helpful! Thank you for taking the time to reach out.  ... View more

Thank You, I really appreciate it! ... View more

Hey @ditrinick - I appreciate you letting us know you are still experiencing this issue. It does seems like this bug is affecting some AMP users. Our engineers are working diligently to fix this. Thanks for your patience! ... View more

Hi ChugKendall, please read this carefully as I hope you will find it helpful.  I put myself in the position of Pandora and I was able to find you on songview, which is a searchable database that gives a combined view of all BMI and ASCAP works, and I take it you are KENDALL CHRISTOPHER DOUGLAS with ASCAP IPI# 00339188532.  I also saw the two of you set up a publishing company (in name, anyway) for your songs called TIPTOE THROUGH THE TWO LIPS MUSIC PUBLISHING with ASCAP IPI# 00339175447.  So, next I know that the MLC requires a valid publisher email by law and also the MLC maintains a publicly available searchable database.  https://portal.themlc.com/search#work  So, going to the MLC portal, I entered your publishing company name and also the names of your songs and I can't find you! Now I know that if I could find you there, I would therefore be able to provide for your a "publicly available website that displays the email address" of your official publisher, anyway, and Pandora could use that email to verify you. But a bigger problem is that you seem to be worried about your album cover not showing, but you're clearly not registered to collect all your royalties, so I think getting registered to collect all your royalties is a bigger problem.  And, as a bonus, if you do so, you'll have a workaround for this problem. Let's talk about royalties that your songs receive from a streaming site like Pandora.  Pandora is an excellent example, because streams from Pandora Premium accounts pay royalties in one way, and streams from Pandora Free accounts pay royalties in another way, so between them, you'll be fully covered for royalties all online streaming sites and all radio. Interactive streams are what Pandora Premium streams are, where users have specific control over what they hear.  These forms of streams get three revenue streams: a) song public performance rights (performance royalties - which ASCAP will collect for you) b) song reproduction and distribution rights (mechanical royalties - which the MLC will collect for you https://portal.themlc.com - the MLC was set up by the US government as a nonprofit NGO that is officially responsible for collecting and paying out these royalties) c) sound recording reproduction and distribution rights (note this is for the sound recording not the song - which your distributor should be collecting.  Now, you've indicated above you don't have a distributor.  You should have one because you're losing a lot of earnings.  Personally I use RouteNote.  They allow me to distribute my songs online and they have no never charged me a penny, just instead they take a 15% share of all the revenues I generate that come through them.  They do also have a plan I can switch to at any time where I can choose to pay fixed amounts and that plan is one of the best I've seen, but for now I'm better off with the zero cost plan I'm on.  So, you could go from getting 0% to 85% of these royalties overnight, and RouteNote could fix your album artwork, as a bonus. Non-interactive streams are what Pandora Free streams are, which are much more like Internet radio, where as a listener I can choose a station but not a specific song.  These forms of streams get two revenue steams: a) song public performance rights (performance royalties - which ASCAP will collect for you) b) sound recording digital performance rights (note this is for the sound recording not the song - which SoundExchange collects (https://sxdirect.soundexchange.com/login/?next=/)  SoundExchange, like the MLC, was set up by law and is similarly a non-profit NGO that is officially responsible for collecting and paying out these royalties. So, it seems like you probably should be prioritizing getting registered on the MLC, SoundExchange, and a distributor (like RouteNote or whatever one you choose).  And, then, your life will be much easier and your wallet will be fatter. I will note that two potential revenue streams the above 4 organizations will not cover are a) sync revenues like from TV or movies, but if you ever place a song on a huge movie, you can research that, and b) if you want to try to monetize your lyrics (I wouldn't bother unless your songs become a lot more popular - if they do, you can research that) If this was helpful to you maybe add a NADRIP song to your playlist if you like it. ... View more

✋Awesome! Gæð a wyrd swa hio scel (& double finger snap for you!) ✊ ... View more

Hey @Lucid-Lounging - We welcome you to this Community! Pandora is home to countless genres of music and I know there is a place for your chill grooves. To start, have you submitted your music to our Curators to consider it for radio? If not, here are the instructions on how to do that. If your music is live on Pandora, have you claimed your AMP artist profile? You can do that here. I would highly recommend checking out the AMP Playbook for lots of great tips on how to promote your music and build your presence on Pandora. I think participating in a webinar is great idea too. You can meet Pandora Curators that way and learn more about AMP. To see upcoming webinars, check out the Creator Events here in the Pandora for Creators Community. Please know that we add new events every month so if you are not seeing anything now, you should see some new stuff at the beginning of the month. Also, please introduce yourself in this thread and share your music with us! We'd love to hear it. Cheers! ... View more

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I'm not sure how I forgot to add these songs to my playlist so here they are... Heart And Soul by T'Pau Long Long Time by Linda Ronstadt  Summer Home In Your Arms by Jewel Waiting For A Girl Like You by Foreigner Be Here To Love Me by Norah Jones Stay With You by John Legend Together Again by Emmylou Harris  The Power Of Love (Radio Edit)  by Celine Dion  I've Been Loving You Too Long by Otis Redding When does it end? With love songs never... Take care and GOD bless...           ... View more

Hey all - I just created a new Event for the upcoming "Introduction to AMP" webinar. You can sign up for it here. Hope to see you there! ... View more

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As an update, today I notice the "insights" tab and the "campaigns" tab are still showing a 48 hour delay (2 days ago), but the "catalog" tab, while when I look at the group of songs it is also showing a 48 hour delay (2 days ago), when I look at date for an individual song it is showing a normal 24 hour delay (yesterday).  There are definitely still unresolved issues with this, although the situation is improved from when it was 4+ days behind.  There is NO SOLUTION as of yet. ... View more

Thank you for all the support.  I just checked the song, and it has been fixed!  Yay. ... View more

Enjoyed!  Though Bob Dylan in the 60's used to buy inexpensive harmonicas for $1 each, play them for one session, and toss them.  So, I highly doubt you ever heard him on a "reedy old harmonica." The full message of most of these singers was essentially "not this [x] but this [y]."  Capturing the portion of their songs that were "not this [x]" (protest songs) is a part of their message, but the messages are incomplete without the other.   For instance, between "Blowin' in the Wind" and "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" Dylan wrote "Corina, Corina" and "Tomorrow is a Long Time."  He wasn't just saying what was obviously wrong in the world but also exploring/searching how to make it right, at least for himself.  Then between "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" and "The Times They are a-Changin'" Dylan writes four important songs that show his evolution in the search for how to make it right.  Three of them, "Don't Think Twice It's Alright," "Girl from North County," and "Boots of Spanish Leather" express an incompleteness, separation and betrayal in his attempts to find how to make it right in a loving relationship, while the fourth, "When the Ship Comes In" expresses a continuing boundless optimism that answer of how to make things right is out there for all of us and we will find it.  Then between "The Times They are a-Changin'" and "Chimes of Freedom" Dylan writes "One Too Many Mornings" where he is still reflecting on his failure to find his answer in a loving relationship but beginning to feel that maybe it is the search itself for something better that is the answer of how to make things better.  And, immediately after "Chimes of Freedom" Dylan writes "Mr. Tambourine Man" where he finally and unreservedly sees that answer of how to make things better in the search itself.  Then he writes "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)" where he's able to laugh at the ridiculousness of many romantic relationships and even the title ("I Don't Believe You") shows him moving far from his earlier optimistic view of what a loving relationship could provide.  And so on and so on. The point is that this is an overall search for meaning, a philosophical interaction with life itself, and to take only a few of his song where he says "this isn't right in the world" is not getting past the surface of that philosophy.  Yet, admittedly, for many people that's about all they know of Dylan.  And these are very good songs.  So, I'm glad some light is being thrown their way.  But I will add that if these songs captivate you, open the book and read the full story. ... View more

Thank you for the comparisons -. I appreciate this. If only others can sound an alarm on all the major platforms to do a comparison we can make better decisions or they can fix the system. ... View more

Hey @SwampGK 👋 It looks like our Curation team has finished preparing your music for radio playback so you can now create a station based off of your music! You can check it out here. Since your music is live on radio now, there are some Similar Artists that the Music Genome Project matched you up with. Do you feel like it's accurate? Let me know! 🎧 ... View more