$old 4 a $ong How Music Creators Lost Their Worth, and How to Take It Back!!!

For decades, music creators were told the same story:

Sign the deal.
Trust the system.
More exposure will eventually turn into stability.

It didn’t.

The old rules are gone.
The new rules were never explained.

In $old 4 a $ong, billboard #1 multi-platinum songwriter, producer, engineer, Terrance Sawchuk examines how creative labor was gradually separated from ownership, leverage, and long-term sustainability, not by accident, but by design. It’s a structural analysis of how music creators lost their worth, and what actually changes when they understand the systems they’re operating inside.

Inside This Book, You’ll Discover:

• The psychological and financial cost of undervaluing your workand yourself

• What ownership really means in the age of streaming and AI

• Practical ways to rebuild worth, leverage, streamlining, sustainability, and long-term creative independence

Drawing from over three decades inside the global music industry, Sawchuk provides both lived experience and structural clarity.

Who This Book Is For

• Music Creators navigating the modern music economy

• Creators who feel overleveraged and undervalued

• Independent thinkers questioning traditional industry pathways

• Those who have signed deals and always wondered why the math never added up

• Those who are tired of measuring their worth in streams, likes, and views

$old 4 a $ong is not a book about how to burn down the industry's legacy systems.

It’s a call to rewrite the rules...