69. Navigating The Modern Music Industry with Bob D'Eith

So the title of this week's show is Navigating the Modern Music Industry.

And I thought you'd be a good person to talk to about this because, well, just be, I mean, first of all, your background, you have so many different facets of the industry that you know.

And also you just released the third edition of your book, oh, which I have here.

I'm going to do a nice little David Letterman sort of.

Oh, nice.

A career in music and 10 steps to success.

And you just released the third edition of this book.

What prompted you to revisit the book now and do like a new edition of it?

Well, frankly, the last edition was 2018.

Well, there you go.

Figure what has changed since 2018 to 2026.

It's unbelievable.

So it needed a really deep reflection.

rewrite.

And a lot of the chapters, some of the chapters are very similar in terms of songwriting and recording, but the digital chapters, the social chapters, adding AI throughout, just trying to rethink things, also some developments in the law and in the business.

So I just wanted to try to make sure it was up to date for folks and still relevant to people because it's hard enough to get people to pick up a book, but if they do, make it relevant

and

And so that's why I've also done an audiobook version.

I've also done a Kindle version, an e-book version, and a physical book.

But I'm just trying to end up doing podcast versions.

Any way I can get it out to folks, because I really feel, as you know, I mean, we've worked with up and coming artists for many, many years.

And some things never change is that most artists do not want to deal with the business.

I understand.

No, no.

But more than ever before, you really do need to embrace the business and understand it and the way to get to the relationships you want, whether that's a label or manager or publicist or publisher.