11 Blog Post Ideas For Musicians

Blogging can be an excellent way for bands and artists to gather more traffic to their personal websites by building up their SEO, but creating new and interesting content out. Continue reading

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Top 7 Ways To Identify If Your Song Is Ready For Release

Many wet-behind-the-ears indie musicians find themselves over-eager when it comes to the prospect of releasing their music for the first time, and will try to push it on the ears. Continue reading

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SoundCloud Responds To Cash Crunch, Fire-Sale Report

Reports of a SoundCloud cash crunch and sell-off at 40% below investor valuation surfaced yesterday, even as the music streamer expanded its Premier Platform.  Now SoundCloud is pushing back, saying. Continue reading

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AM BRIEF: Sheeran, Chance Reveal Chart Flaws • Sony vs McCartney • New Spotify Podcast, Ad Partners • More

Tuesday 3.14.17 Music Business News From Around The Web  How could music chart keepers have been so unprepared for streaming? Updated under our More News tab

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Weekly Music Publishing Update: U.S. Copyright Royalty Board Begins Rate Deliberations

Last week one of the most important copyright deliberations in more than a decade began in Washington D.C. as the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board began rate deliberations, and songwriters and. Continue reading

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5 Tips For Building A Robust Email List

As an artist or musician, a robust email list is one of the most important marketing tools you can have.  But if it's something that you're just starting to build,. Continue reading

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39 Essential Music Tech Events At SXSW

As many Hypebot readers head off to SXSW, we wanted to again share a list the 39 essential music tech related meetups and sessions prepared by our friends at MusicTectonics. Continue reading

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DJs, Producers Can Now Join SoundCloud Premier And Get Paid

We've been skeptical of the speed at which SoundCloud has on-ramped artists to its Premier program that allows creators to share in revenue generated ON SoundCloud. Today, the financially challenged. Continue reading

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6 Artists Performing At SXSW That Are Poised To Make It Big

Of the many, many bands that are performing officially and unofficially at SXSW this year, only a handful will see major career growth in the next year. So data journalist. Continue reading

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How Music Marketing Is Changing In 2017

Although not without its flaws, 2016 was the first time in a while that the music industry showed signs of real growth, thanks in large part to the rising popularity. Continue reading

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Stop The Legalized Extortion: How To Make The Live Music Experience Fair For All

Here a former venue owner explores the possibilities behind technology bringing transparency to live performance marketplace, thereby ending what has essentially become a form of legalized extortion for artists.

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