Success Beyond The Score

On International Women's Day, we want to highlight the effort and achievements of our community for emerging female musicians, Time For My Music.

As the COVID-19 pandemic forced the world into lock-down, our creative director, Millicent Stephenson, moved her projects to support women in music to the digital space. Time For My Music was thus born as an online community, where women could network, learn about the music industry, and build a path towards their goals.

As a group, Time For My Music has put together two online concerts and one live performance in the city of Birmingham. You can watch them on YouTube:

• Highlights of first online concert
• Second online concert
• Live concert, part 1
• Live concert, part 2

They also got a photographic exhibition:

Individual members have gone to become part of bands, get booked for private gigs, perform in front of bigger audiences and grown their social media following.

Women are underrepresented in the music industry, particularly as...

It has been some time since we updated and refreshed the website. Whilst it accommodates our needs, we think we can make it clearer and easier to navigate. There are also some resources and pages that we would like to highlight better, so you can get all the benefits of being part of this community.

For this reason, we will be overhauling our page in the upcoming months. If, while using the site, you have thought about something you would like to see adjusted, added or removed, now is the perfect time to let us know. We are also all ears in regard to the kind of content you would like us to provide in addition to what we already have. 

We will seek to address all concerns and ideas forwarded our way. To communicate with us, please send an e-mail to info@millicentstephenson.com.

Thank you, and we hope that you are looking forward to seeing the new look and functionality of Success Beyond The Score!

Together Alliance is a country-wide coalition of civil society organisations working for inclusion, equity and justice. Given the increasing threat of the far right, it's been decided to hold a massive demonstration against it in London on Saturday 28 March 2026.

The Musicians Union is going to be part of the demonstration, and there is a chance to join their delegation. If you are interested, you can follow the steps described here in their website.

Diversity and cultural connection are key aspects of music. Due to this, among other reasons, ideologies like fascism seek to control or destroy the arts as part of their pursue of power. The arts are and must remain expressions of humanity that transcend division and discrimination. As musicians, then, we have the ability and duty to preserve the freedom of the arts and the people.

Please, help spread the word. Even if you cannot physically attend the demonstration, you can help it achieve the impact it seeks by promoting it, and by pu...

Signups are open for the FREE webinar, ‘15 ways to promote your music online and offline’. No matter if you do music for a living, as a side job or as a hobby, you can benefit from this knowledge to expand your reach, grow a fan base, and share your art with more people.

Here’s the key information:

• Date: 25.02.2026
• Time: 19:00h UTC+0:00.
  For reference, this is 2:30pm USA EST, 7:30pm UK, and 6:30am of the 26th AEDT
• Platform: Zoom

Click here to sign up

Anyone with an interest in promoting their music can participate. Tell your friends who are also working in music, so more people can benefit!

It is already the second half of February. Hopefully, all the plans and goals you set at the beginning of the year are going well. If not, no problem! It is not too late, you have not failed, and most importantly, you don't have to wait until next December.

Here is a video by Dr. Jamie from The Productivity Psychologist, explaining some advantages that February has over January as a starting point for setting goals.  

Now, you may be wondering if this is still valid when half the month is already gone. The answer is yes. Time markers like new year, your birthday or the first day of any given month are just that, reference points that we gravitate towards, but that are not essential to start pursuing a new objective. If you definitely need a point of reference in time to motivate yourself to start something, you can learn about other ways of measuring time, like the lunar calendar, which this week marked the beginning of the lunar new year, Mardi Gras/Ash Wednesday, and the first d...

We are very pleased with the reception of the free webinar, "How to stream your live music performances". Seeing how useful the information was for our participants, we have decided to offer another learning opportunity at no cost.

This time, we are going to talk about how to get more people to learn about what you do. 

This webinar is open to anyone who is up and coming, or established as a singer, producer, musician, music director, songwriter, rapper, or DJ.  Even if your music is done in your spare time, part-time, or full time, understanding promotion will help you with growing your performance opportunities, developing music into an income stream, or growing a fanbase. 

in this free Zoom webinar, Millicent will explain 15 tools you can use to help you move forward.

You will learn:

1. The difference between publicity, marketing and advertising.
2. Seven reality checks for your promotion journey.
3. Fifteen free or low cost tools for promoting your work.

Th...

This is the final batch of episodes from season 1 of the podcast Success Beyond the Score. They share the theme of looking at the future, from what to do when setbacks in other areas of your life jeopardise your job, to how to use new technologies to share your music online, and what good habits will ensure the longevity of your career.

On Wednesday 28th January 2026, there is going to be a FREE COURSE expanding on the subject of music performance livestreaming, which is treated on episodes 27 and 28 of the podcast. You are still in time to sign up by clicking this link.

Here are the episodes:

26. What do you do when life happens to your online music?

What do you do when everything is going in the right direction, and all of a sudden, you get a setback from nowhere? Today, Millicent explores how to deal with curveballs and unexpected life issues that make difficult to keep up with your online posting or work.

27. What equipment do you need to livestream?

Are you interested in p

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Would you like to learn ‘how to stream your live music performance on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok’ to your followers? Do you wonder what equipment you need, or what buttons to press? 

If so, Millicent will be running a FREE beginners’ session on Wednesday 28th January 2026, 7.30pm via Zoom. This session will cover:

1.    The basic equipment that you may already have, and one other thing you really need (which does not cost the earth) to livestream.
2.    How you can make sure your image and sound are captured properly.
3.    The buttons to press and the boxes to fill in order to go live.
4.    How to get viewers to your videos.

This session is for anyone who wants to perform their music on the internet to family, friends, followers or fans. If it sounds interesting, click here to sign up. And if you have any questions, you can ask Millicent directly at info@millicentstephenson.com

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If you are like me, setting goals and targets is a great way to achieve musical progress. To help with this, in December, I purchased a Christmas present for me: a planner.

It might seem boring, but it's exactly what I need to get organised. I prefer paper and pen, so I can get in touch with the page and my thoughts more easily. Some prefer to use apps, and that is OK, too. 

One thing I like about planners is that many have motivational statements on different pages. They remind me to keep going. Another is how their design makes it intuitive, easy and efficient to organise your thoughts.

Mine has a To-Do page for the month, which is great for listing the title of my monthly targets (e.g. MOT the car. Songs to learn for X gig). Then, there is a month at a view page, which helps me to allocate the tasks of my targets in the month (e.g. the day I will call the mechanic, the day I will practise a particular song). A month at a view also helps me to be more aware of how cluttered my li...

This next batch of episodes from the podcast Success Beyond the Score are all about earning money from your music on the internet. Whilst the panorama has changed significantly since the recording of this segment, it still contains valuable considerations and ideas to consider if you want to monetise your music online.

Have a listen:

22. How to make money from your music online.

How do you make money from your music online? Is it only through gigging, or is it about being a portfolio musician? How long does it take to make money?

23. 21 ways to make money from your music online.

Here is a road map for anyone wanting to create or develop earning from their music online. Covering selling, advertising, teaching, performing, services, sync and more.

24. 5 reasons for monetising your music online, now!

Moving your music online with the intention of making money seems like the right thing to do, but how can you be sure? Millicent presents 5 reasons for monetising your music online

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