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Updated Edition for 2025

Written in easy-to-understand plain English by an experienced award-winning lawyer, Audrey K. Chisholm, whose clients' music has been featured on Disney+®, Netflix®, Marvel® Movies, American Idol®, and more, “Run Your Music Business™” is the second book in the Music Law Series™

“Run Your Music Business™” picks up where “Start Your Music Business™” left off and is an easy to read guide for songwriters, producers, music publishers, independent record labels, artists, bands, musicians, and individuals in the music industry that want to legally protect their music business, understand how to make a full-time income making music, and strategically grow and properly manage their music business to avoid legal issues in the future.

In this book you will learn how to:

1. How to Get Paid Licensing Your Music
2. How to Set-up Your Own Publishing Company
3. How to Build Your Own Music Catalog
4. How to Register with a Performing Rights Society
5. How to Negotiate Contracts (Record Label Agreements, Producer Contracts, Songwriter Contracts, etc.)
6. How to Work Full Time in Music
7. How to Know if Your Business is Growing
8. How to Know if Your Business Is Profitable (Understanding Financial Statements)
9. How to Create a Budget for your Music Business
10. How to Manage Debt
11. 10 Ways to Improve Your Credit Score
12. How to Run Your Music Business
13. How to Hold Business Meetings
14. Developing a Strategic Plan for Your Business
15. Business Recordkeeping / How to Keep Proper Business Records
16. 10 Ways to Avoid I.R.S. Trouble
17. How to File Business Taxes
18. Building Your Team
19. And more!

This updated edition includes easy-to-understand examples and resources that can help you not only legally protect your music business but learn how to earn a full-time income making music.

Audrey K. Chisholm, Esq. is the founder and senior partner of Chisholm Law Firm, LLC. She is a nationally renowned attorney and represents individuals in the music business in entertainment, corporate, litigation, and intellectual property (copyright and trademark) legal matters. She is a member of the Florida Bar Association. Her clients include record labels, songwriters, music publishers, producers and artists whose works have been featured on MTV®, American Idol®, VH1®, and more. She is a sought after speaker at conferences and events and has spoken to audiences of over 13,000 people. She is the published author of the #1 Amazon Bestselling book in music business "Start Your Music Business™" and "Run Your Music Business™". Attorney Chisholm is also the founder of a 13-year-old federally recognized 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization, Revolution Leadership, Inc., that provides educational leadership programming, financial management, and entrepreneurship training, and awards college scholarships to high school students and has served over 1,500 students nationwide. She resides in Orlando, Florida with her husband, financial author Dr. Juan Chisholm.