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often leave people scratching their heads. We’ve compiled a list of music industry abbreviations, slang, technical words and phrases that tend to pop up now and then and explained what they mean.

Australian Business Number is a unique 11 digit identifying number that businesses use when dealing with other businesses.  If you want to take your music to the next level, it’s important to get your [..]

When an artist enters a contract with a record label or publishing company, they are given an ‘advance’ by their label/publisher – a lump of loaned money which the artist then uses to record an album, [..]

A&R used to mean The Artist and Repertoire (ARA) department in a record company, responsible for finding and developing upcoming artists, as well as acting as a point of contact for existing ones. [..]

An essential legal document allowing the temporary importation of equipment to countries without paying customs duty. Essential for all international touring acts, as without it you may be hit with th [..]

Recognising that something is officially noted as having been created or authored by someone.

This generally refers to the body of work (for instance, albums, EPs and/or singles) that a writer or artist has released.

This ‘overall’ license authorises the public performance of all songs in the society’s catalog. These are issued by the Performance Rights Organisations and are supplied to to radio station, venues an [..]