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Books Hack Your Hit: Free and Cheap Marketing Tips for Musicians | ||
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Jay Frank is an American author and music industry executive. He is the owner of DigSin, a new digital record label that distributes content free to subscribers
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After earning a Bachelor of Science degree from Ithaca College, Frank managed a music venue, programmed broadcast radio stations, and created two local music video shows. He then acted as a marketing and A&R for Ignition Records before serving as senior music director at The Box Music Network. Prior to joining CMT in 2007, Frank was Vice President of Music Programming and Label Relations for Yahoo! Music and the Senior Vice President of Music Strategy for Country Music Television, which he joined in 2007.
Frank is an avid blogger and published his first book, Futurehit. DNA, in 2009. In the book, Frank studies what elements have contributed to past hit songs, including available technology, song structure, and instrumentation, and fifteen points he believes songwriters today must consider if they want to write hit songs. His second book, Hack Your Hit, offers low cost marketing tips for musicians utilizing tricks with social networks. "Futurehit.DNA" has garnered mostly positive reviews.
Frank sits on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Country Music, the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, and Leadership Music, and is a member of NARAS, the CRS Marketing Committee, and Leadership Music Digital Summit.
Frank has spoken about music technology at such conferences as The New Music Seminar, South by Southwest, Canadian Music Week, ASCAP Expo, Digital Music Forum, MusExpo, CMJ, SF Music Tech Summit, Mobile Entertainment Summit, and MIDEM. He was an instructor at the Rock and Load Music Group 2010 University Event, and has spoken at NMS and SXSW conferences, among others.