Our last #HowWeListen Live: In Conversation event of 2022 brings together a top-drawer panel. Hosted by Byta’s Marc Brown, they dissect the music ecosystem’s recent past and what the future looks like. They each suggest some tools and strategies that might help a musician move their career forward. Each of our guests weighs in on music discovery.
"A fan a day" is basically anything that you’re doing to grow. Everything that you do should be cognisant of building an audience...
This episode features a panel discussion moderated by Marc Brown, Founder & CEO, Byta / byta.com
Our guests are: Mira Silvers (Head of Music, FORT Agency), Nikisha Bailey (GM, Nvak Collective Executive Board, The Recording Academy Global Co-Chair, Diversity & Inclusion, Women In Music) & Phil Loutsis (VP Community, AWAL)
Live music, festivals, and conferences. All of a sudden people were back in the same rooms listening to and talking about music again. 2022 was the year music finally came back from COVID. Some of the same old challenges that have always been there did not go away. This episode comes up with a few ideas to move a music career forward.
Here is a little more information on our panelists:
Mira Silvers
Originally from Atlanta, Mira Silvers is a young music executive & polymath, who serves as the General Manager/Co-Founder of VICEVERSA, an emerging social-based record label and artist incubation platform. Additionally, she is an artist manager and the Head of Music at FORT, an independent female-led and Brown-owned agency focusing on a highly curated roster of artists for live development.
Phil Loutsis
Phil focuses his energies on helping indie artists build their careers. Part of his role at AWAL includes curating content to help creators and managers make the best use of their resources. A big part of building and sustaining those music careers – harnessing community with artists, creators and their teams. He enables artists and their teams to better tell their stories.
Nikisha Bailey
Forbes “Next 1000 list 2021” honoree, Nikisha Bailey is a community-driven entrepreneur, entertainment executive, and philanthropist with a lifelong commitment to music. Professionally, she is the General Manager for the Nvak Collective – a next-generation record label & artist advocacy collective that embraces web3 to drive change for creators and intellectual property. She also serves as Vice President for The Recording Academy’s New York Chapter and is an Ambassador for the Academy’s Black Music Collective (BMC).
Even if you stumble on this podcast deep into 2023, or further down the road, the ideas, strategies and inspired conversation that take place in this episode are well worth a listen, are still relevant. Sustaining a career in music has never been easy but the landscape seems to be changing at an increased pace... or is it. Some things remain the same- like hard work and treating your music and yourself like a business, other things- streaming, TikTok offer up new opportunities and challenges.
#HowWeListen Live: In Conversation
00:10 - Byta.com
02:49 - FORT Agency, MMF Canada, VICEVERSA Records
03:51 - AWAL
04:32 - Nvak Collective, The Recording Academy, Women In Music
14:13 - Chartmetric
19:57 - Girl In Red
25:53 - 1000 Super Fans
30:49 - Byta
33:00 - Muni Long
33:31 - Jazmine Sullivan, Denzel Curry
40:15 - Artist as CEO
51:57 - SubmitHub
55:21 - Byta.com
Music by Fin Productions and Oliver Lyu
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