The 1975 Kept New Album Off Spotify For Just 12 Days And That It Helped It Debut At #1
Despite an aggressive campaign by Spotify to discourage it, more and more artists and labels are windowing – the practice of not making them available to streaming music services until. Continue reading
Don’t Expect To Hear Your Music Played In China
Although China's sizeable music-listening population would seem to make it a profitable country in which to distribute your music, an increase in government restrictions on foreign media means outside artists. Continue reading
5 Questions For Music Industry Expert Julie Flanders [October Project] [INTERVIEW]
Here Cyber PR's Ariel Hyatt spoke with long time industry veteran and member of the pop rock group October Project Julie Flanders about her career, and what today's artists can do. Continue reading
Pandora Launches AMPcast: Free Direct To Fan Audio Messaging
Direct to fan massaging seems to be the theme of the day. This morning, Bandsintown launched a free direct messaging tool. Now, Pandora has announced AMPcast, a mobile app that allows. Continue reading
A Musician’s Essential Guide To Social Media
As an artist, social media should hardly be your only means of promotion but it is a valuable resource, and like anything thing else there is a right and wrong. Continue reading
Guide To Being Your Own Music Publicist: Part 2 [Ariel Hyatt]
In part two of how to be your own music publicist, we look at how to research and determine which music blogs to target, set up an email management system,. Continue reading
Bandsintown Adds Free Direct To Fan Messaging, Passes 23M Users
New Bandsintown stats tout 23 million users. That's up 8 million from last year in a competitive sector that includes Songkick, BandPage, ReverbNation and others helping to spread concert dates. Continue reading
Rapper Ryan Leslie Scores $1.5M For Superphone Direct To Fan Commerce Startup
Ryan Leslie, who has produced tracks for Snoop Dogg, Cassie, Usher and others, coded the first version of Superphone to connect with and sell to his own fans via SMS. Now. Continue reading
Warning: Beware NBC/Universal’s Submission Form For “Songland”
Those planning to apply to NBC/Universal's new show "Songland" should read their contracts carefully, as they contain some alarming terminology regarding the amount of control which NBC/Universal would have over. Continue reading
Looking Good: 4 Easy Fixes To Improve Your Band’s Onstage Look
While the music may be the focus, it's important to remember that live shows are also a visual experience for the audience, meaning your onstage look is also of significant. Continue reading
