harder than ever to be an independent musician

It’s YOUR career. To succeed you need to work harder than everyone else

How bad do you want to succeed? Do you work harder than everyone in your band or on your team? Michael Barndvold and Jay Gilbert discuss how you can’t sit. Continue reading

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Stationhead adds $12M from Diplo, Red Light for live radio-like streaming

Stationhead has added $12 million to grow its radio-like live social audio platform. We take a look at the platform, its huge potential for creators, and offer an analysis of. Continue reading

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Independent Venue Week returns with 1100 shows across the U.S.

Independent Venue Week returns for its 5th year this week in 400 independent music venues across all 50 states and Washington, D.C. The celebration comes begins as the National Independent. Continue reading

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Scenes from NIVA independent venue conference

The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) Conference wrapped Tuesday night in Cleveland. Just shy of 600 attended the inaugural conference. Hypebot was at NVA 2022 and you can find full. Continue reading

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How music powers fitness

In the last six months, Feed.fm has served 425 million songs to the connected devices and fitness apps of 8.7 million unique users. 93% of those exercisers say that music drives. Continue reading

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Spotify exec Jen Masset on streaming manipulation, bots & stream farms

Spotify executive Jen Masset talks to Your Morning Coffee’s Jay Gilbert about the harmful practice of stream count manipulation and what the streamer is doing to stop it. Jen Masset,. Continue reading

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Deadmau5 is launching his own bank with Zytara

Deadmau5 is partnering with banking, NFT and digital currency company Zytara to launch a branded digital bank. deadmau5-branded physical and virtual debit cards at 45 million global merchants. A banking. Continue reading

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To earn $100B year, Spotify shares plan to charge musicians for access

Spotify shared its plans to take the company to yearly revenue of $100 billion during this week’s Investor Day, and it includes charging musicians and labels for access to some. Continue reading

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Linktree launches Marketplace to showcase Spotify, TikTok, Bandsintown, and 30+ app integrations

The new Linktree Marketplace serves as a directory of the more than 30 apps and integrations connected to its unified landing pages. Included are Spotify, TikTok, Soundcloud, Shopify, Bandsintown, and. Continue reading

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Spotify for Artists adds In Focus interactive guide to marketing, career development

Spotify for Artists has reorganized and revamped its extensive self-help offering as In Focus, a new free self-guided interactive site designed to help artists and their teams achieve career goals.. Continue reading

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Spotify royalties top $60B

See what Spotify pays its employees

Business Insider crunched US pay data to see what Spotify offers its top talent and how it compares to other streaming and media companies. Here is what they found. Spotify. Continue reading

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