This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Chris Farren, Grammy-nominated songwriter and founder of Combustion Music, a Nashville-based music publishing and artist development company responsible for more than 100 number-one hits.

Chris shares decades of experience navigating the music business, from writing hit songs to building a publishing company and developing artists. Ari and Chris break down how professional songwriters get signed, how songwriting rooms work, how publishing deals and advances are structured, and how songwriters earn royalties.

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05:54 - Building a music publishing company and developing artists

15:32 - How music publishers pay songwriters

26:07 - Songwriting as a craft: practice, productivity, and getting better

28:16 - Teaching songwriters to write for the market without sacrificing creativity

30:44 - Writing songs for specific artists

32:00 - How artists' involvement in songwriting has changed

37:58 - How songwriting rooms work

39:15 - Pitching songs and getting them to artists

57:51 - Music catalogs and the renewed life of older songs

58:37 - Advice for aspiring professional songwriters

Edited and mixed by Ruben Zarate

Music by Brassroots District

Produced by the team at Ari’s Take

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