Get better at this.

Six short guides. One system each, no spreadsheets.

A songwriter hunched over a desk under a bare bulb

Guide 01 · 3 min

Songwriting

What your cards do when you turn them into a track.

A performer alone in a spotlight on a small stage, hands up in the crowd below

Guide 02 · 3 min

Your stats

Three stats earn money three different ways. A fourth multiplies all of them.

A professional recording room, desk and monitors set up for a session

Guide 03 · 3 min

Gear and collaborators

Your equipment. Both kinds run out, in different ways.

An artist holding up a freshly pressed record

Guide 04 · 3 min

Your collection

Why owning more cards is not the same as being better.

A packed stadium show lit in red, the crowd filling the frame

Guide 05 · 3 min

Playing live

The steadiest money, and the one place your back catalogue still counts.

An artist on a stadium runway, the crowd lit gold to the back of the stands

Guide 06 · 3 min

The charts

Why your song slipped, and what it takes to stay up there.

Or just go and look.

The charts are live right now, and every name on them is somebody playing.