Backstage: Music Business 101

Pdevelop LLC

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About this app

Learn how musicians get paid: royalties, publishing, copyright and record deals, in five-minute lessons.

Backstage is a course on the business side of music for independent artists, managers and songwriters. Not production, not songwriting: rights, money and contracts, taught like a game.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
• The two halves of every song, composition and master, and who gets paid for each.
• The four kinds of royalty, and how to read a statement.
• Collecting societies, work registration and what a publisher does.
• Distribution, metadata and the contract you sign with a distributor.
• Record deals before you sign: advance, recoupment, territory, term.
• Splits, manager deals, sync, live, merch and planning a release.

HOW IT WORKS
• 50 lessons in 12 sections, with 350 hand-written exercises.
• Multiple choice, true or false, fill in the blank, matching and ordering.
• Miss a question and it comes back until you get it right. Then it waits for you in Practice.
• Three crowns per lesson, a daily streak, XP and hearts.
• Five tracks (full course, artist, manager, songwriter, live and sync) reorder the sections around your role. All twelve sections are in every track.
• Finish all 50 lessons and the app makes a PDF certificate with your name.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No account, no ads, no in-app purchases.
• No personal data collected. No analytics, no trackers.
• Your progress stays on your phone and works offline. If you uninstall the app, it goes with it.

At the bottom of Profile there are two optional links, naeku.io and ytrocket.com, services from the same team. They open in your browser only if you tap them, and they receive nothing about you.

Educational content, not legal, tax or financial advice. Market figures are common ranges and vary by territory.

What’s new

Backstage is now on Google Play: learn how musicians get paid for their music.

• 12 sections, 50 five-minute lessons and 350 exercises.
• What you miss comes back until you get it right.
• Five tracks order the course around your role.
• Daily streak and an optional daily reminder.
• A PDF certificate with your name when you finish all 50 lessons.
• In English and Spanish. No account, no ads, no purchases, works offline.

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