JournalField notes

Playbooks from the business of modern music.

Written by the Lordkay team when we find something worth writing down. Slow-published, no ads, no sponsorship.

The royalty audit playbook every independent artist should run yearly

Most artists are missing between 8% and 30% of the royalties they are owed. Here is how we find it — and how you can too.

Streaming rewarded singles for a decade. That's over. Here is what has replaced it — and what we do about it.

Where sync revenue actually comes from now — and why the old rules of the sync deal are quietly dying.

Aesthetic decisions are the easy part. Here is the harder work that separates a real artist brand from a moodboard.