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#452: Sia — The Alchemy of Blockbuster Songs, Billions of Views, and the Face You’ve Never Seen

The Tim Ferriss Show

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The Best Way to Make Money in the Music Business

The best way to make money in music, if you're going to be a musician, is to write. Chords are worth 50 per cent of publishing an lyrics and melody are worth fifty per cent of publishing. And then if you go and produce it, you get a fee for producing. A good producer these days will make thirty, forty grand for producing a song. The song writing process is literally just chords and melody and lyrics....

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