Sold 4 a Song (How Music Creators Lost Their Worth, and How to Take It Back): How Music Creators Lost Their Worth, and How to Take It Back (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798995079705)

Music has never been more valuable. And music creators have never been more overleveraged.

If you are an artist, songwriter, producer, or musician who has ever felt underpaid, overlooked, or trapped by the system surrounding your work, this book was written for you.

In Sold 4 a Song, Billboard #1 and multi-platinum selling songwriter, producer, and engineer Terrance Lee Sawchuk breaks down how music creators lost leverage, why so many careers become financially unsustainable, and what creators must understand to take their worth back.

This is not just a music business book. It is a clear-eyed look at what has happened to creative value in the modern music industry - and what creators can do about it.

Inside this book, you will discover:

• how creators gradually lose leverage, ownership, and control
• why success and money do not always lead to freedom
• how technology, intermediaries, and outdated systems have reshaped music economics
• what it takes to build a more sustainable creative life

​​​​​​​Blending industry history, personal experience, economics, and hard-earned perspective, Sold 4 a Song challenges the myths that have kept music creators overworked, underprotected, and disconnected from their real worth.

This book is for:

• independent artists
• songwriters
• producers
• musicians
• music business students
• managers and creator advocates
• anyone who wants to understand where the value in music really goes

If you have ever asked:

Why do so many music creators struggle financially, even when the work is strong?

Why does visibility so often come without real ownership?

Why are creators expected to give away value before they ever build leverage?

How can artists, writers, and producers build careers that are not just visible, but sustainable?

Sold 4 a Song offers a powerful answer: creative worth is not something to wait for others to validate. It is something to understand, protect, and build from