About Our Recording Artist Development Contracts

Recording artist development contracts in this section are used by recording and live performing musical artists to contract with parties during the developmental and independent stages of their career. Also found in this section are contracts used by artist development companies to contract with recording artists. Personal managers may refer to the Artist Management Agreement section of our site for those contracts. Regardless of the contract you choose, you can feel confident in the contract’s relevance and accuracy, as each document was drafted by a professional entertainment attorney. Should you have any questions about our contracts, reach out to our team through our online email form.

• Artist Development Contract Package

• Band or Group Partnership Agreement

• Demo Recording Shopping Agreement

• Featured Artist Agreement (Royalty/No Song Rights)

• Featured Artist Agreement (No Royalty/Song Rights)

• Letter of Direction (To Record Company)

• Live Performance Agreement (Simple)

• Live Performance Side Artist Agreement

• Master Use License (Compilation)

• Mechanical License

• Music Video Production Agreement

• Photographer Services Agreement

• Producer Artist Development Agreement

• Recording Artist Development Agreement

• Recording Artist Investment Agreement

• Release Agreement

• Single Master & Song Collaboration Agreement

• Single Song Collaboration Agreement

• Song Plugger Agreement

• Songwriter (Copyright) Split Sheet

The Artist Development Contract Package contains contracts that are used by recording and live performing artists to contract with different parties during the development or other stages their career. 

The Band Or Group Partnership Agreement is a partnership agreement establishes a business entity amongst the members of a band or group and sets forth the agreements amongst the members on the business issues that arise between them (e.g. profit sharing, decision making, etc.).

The Demo Recording Shopping Agreement is a contract used by a representative that will shop or pitch a recording artist's demo recordings and promotional package to record labels with the intent of getting a record deal for the artist. 

This Featured Artist Agreement or Side Artist Agreement is a contract used when a record label, artist or producer hires a musician, singer or rapper who is not part of the artist's group or band to perform on an artist's recording. 

This Featured Artist Agreement or Side Artist Agreement is a contract used when a record label, artist or producer hires a musician, singer or rapper who is not part of the artist's group or band to perform on an artist's recording

The Composition License For Theatrical Play is used by a theatrical producer, or creator, of a theatrical or musical play to contract with a songwriter, or the songwriter's publisher, to use a song in the play or musical.

This Live Performance Agreement is used when a performing artist agreees to perform live at a venue.

The Live Performance Side Artist Agreement is used by a band or group to contract with a musician or singer who will perform at live shows with the group for a fee but is not a member of the group. 

The Master Use License (Compilation) is used when someone wants to use a master recording owned by the artist for a compilation record. This license would also be used if a film or television producer who wishes to include a recording of a song on a soundtrack compilation album associated with the film or television show.

This Mechanical License is used by an artist to license the right to record a song written by someone else. It can also be used to license a song to another artist who wishes to record the song written by the songwriter for purposes of selling a recording of the song. 

The Music Video Production Services Agreement is a contract used when hiring a person to provide services in some aspect of the production of a music video for an artist. 

This Photographer Services Agreement is a contract used by an artist or record label when hiring a photographer to take photos of an artist that will be used on the packaging of an audio product or other promotional uses for the artist.

This Producer Artist Development Agreement is used when an artist and a producer agree for the producer to provide services as a record producer for the artist on a speculative basis.

The Recording Artist Development Agreement is used by persons or companies that wish to invest in all aspects of the professional development of a recording artist with the intention of securing a recording agreement with a successful record label or entertainment company.

The Recording Artist Investment Agreement is a contract between an artist and an individual who wishes to support the artist by giving them money for a specific area of development in their career such as recording a demo  or full album, going out on tour, hiring a booking agent, etc. 

This Release Agreement is a contract used when two parties wish to release each other from the obligations under a contract previously signed by both parties.

This Single Master And Song Collaboration Agreement is used when  two or more persons collaborate on both the writing of a song and the recording of the song and will own the rights to the recording and the song jointly. This collaboration can include musicians, vocalists and producers.

The Single Song Collaboration Agreement is used when a two or more songwriters agree in advance to write a song together, or have written a song together, and want address how the song will be administrated along with other rights. This Agreement is more extensive than a Songwriter (Copyright) Split Sheet. 

The Song Plugger Agreement is used by a person who will shop a songwriter's songs to record labels, publishing companies, producers and artists or other third party users of songs for the songwriter.

The Songwriter Split Sheet is a simple contract used when a two or more songwriters co-write a song and the songwriters want to acknowledge the co-ownership and list the percentages of ownership.