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Label operations, written by someone running one.
Royalties, distribution, release planning, and the admin nobody warns you about. Written from a working label, not a content calendar.
The release timeline, reverse-engineered
How to plan a music release backward from the date: why you deliver to the distributor a month out, the pre-save runway, and how to stop releases slipping.
Label operations
The bottleneck in a record label was never creativity
The romantic version of running a label is taste. The actual version is coordination. Why that distinction decides what music software should be built for.
Label operationsWhy I built software for my own record label
A midnight holding three releases in my head, none of the work hard, all of it mine to remember. Why I started building the boring, important thing.