Everything You Need To Know About Music Managers

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These days, artists must wear many hats. Along with making the music, up-and-coming artists are often their own publicists, labels, graphic designers, and more. However, at a certain point, this all becomes too much, so the artist is forced to delegate some of these responsibilities, usually first to a manager.

Music managers come from all different backgrounds, and they typically assist artists by providing them with, for example, money, experience, industry contacts, and maybe just simply enthusiasm and support. A manager may already work in the music industry, may be friends with an artist from his or her early days, or may simply believe that the artist has the potential to “make it.” However, managers are one of the few artist representatives who are unlicensed, unregulated and need no experience (unlike, attorneys, agents and business managers). In fact, anyone can call him or herself a music manager. It seems like all one has to do to start a management company is create a Facebook company page.