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Music Industry Glossary

Every term an artist, label or songwriter needs — explained in plain English.

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A&R Advance Aggregator Album Artist Profile

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Barcode Beat Bitrate Breakbeat Broadcast

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Catalog CISAC Composition Copyright Cover Song

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Digital Release Distribution Distributor DSP Dolby Atmos

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EAN Editorial Playlist EP Exclusive Deal Explicit Content

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Featured Artist FLAC Fingerprint Frontline Full-Track Streaming

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Genre GS1 Grammy Gross Income Guest Artist

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Hi-Res Audio Hit Hook House Hyphenated Metadata

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Independent Artist Independent Label IPI Number ISRC ISWC

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JioSaavn Joinder Jingle Jam Justice

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Kbps Keyboard Key Kick Knowledge Base

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Label Lead Single Licensing Lossless Lossy

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Master Mastering Mechanical Royalty Metadata Monetization

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Neighboring Rights Net Royalty Newsletter Noise Gate Non-Exclusive

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Official Artist Channel Orchestra Overdub Ownership OAC

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Performance Royalty Performance Rights Organisation Pitch Playlist Pre-Save

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Qobuz Quality Control Quartile Query Queue

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Recoupment Release Remix Royalty Royalty Rate

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Sample Sample Rate Single Split Sheet Stream

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Territory Track True Peak TuneCore Track Explainer

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UPC Union Territory Upload Usage Universal Music

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Verse Vinyl Visualizer Versioning Vocal

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WAV Warner Music Writer Writer Share Webmaster

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X-Mas Track Xenial XLR Xylophone XML Sitemap

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YouTube Music Year of Reference YouTube Yield Your Library

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Zaventra Zed Zero Deductions Zone Zoom Track

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