The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), more widely know as the Recording Academy, is an organization of creative and technical music creators dedicated to ‘improving the quality of life and cultural condition for music and its makers.’ Also, they award the prestigious Grammy award to deserving artists every year near the end of January. The membership votes on who wins the award each year, so the award is peer awarded. This last year, almost half of the awards went to independent recording artists. This year, the academy launched its own members-only social networking site. If you are interested in joining the Recording Academy, click grammy.com/join and sign up.
NARAS
August 9th, 2010Album Credits III
July 26th, 2010There are several resources online that list album credits. They populate their databases right off of the album artwork that is submitted. Generally, they do not accept changes or anything that is not physically printed on the artwork of the album. The two main places I’ve found online are allmusic.com and albumcredits.com. Established in 1991, the All Music Guide (AMG) has been the definitive source for information about the quickly expanding music market. By 1995, allmusic.com was launched and has been the place for ‘music fans to indulge their passion.’ Recently, AlbumCredits.com has come on the scene and has grown quickly. It is from the same database as the All Music Guide, but the people credited can claim their profiles and enter contact info. Although still in beta, when the site goes to the ’1.0′ version there will be a paid option to add functionality to your profile.
Album Credits II
July 12th, 2010This is the second installment of a series about Album Credits. As this is just to help brainstorming, I will just make a list that recommended album credits to include on the artwork. Hopefully this will help you remember to try to include everyone that worked on your product.
Front Cover
- Album Title
- Artist
Back Cover
- List of Tracks
- Contact/Booking Info*
- Personnel
- Legal info, copyright notice, etc. . .
Spine
- Year
- Album Title
- Artist
- Record Label and Catalog Number
Inside Cover
- Production Credits (Include the following)
- Executive Producer
- Producer
- Recording Engineer (and assistants if any)
- Location of Recording
- Date of Recording*
- Mixing Engineer (and assistants if any)
- Location of Mix
- Date of Mix*
- Mastering Engineer
- Location of Mastering
- Date of Mastering*
- Graphic Designer (photographers and others also if applicable)
Inside Pages
- Song Lyrics
- Thank you’s
* optional