How One Generation Was Single-Handedly Able To Kill The Music Industry

Album sales used to be the favorable metric when calculating an artists success or failure, but with that business model long since out the window, new artists are fighting to. Continue reading

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Management Shuffle: Stefani To Azoff, Lady Gaga To Live Nation

Big changes in the world of music management. Just months after a nasty split with longtime manager Troy Carter, Lady Gaga and her new manager, Bobby Campbell, have joined Artist Nation,. Continue reading

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Why Music Labels and Publishers Chronically Miss Out On Licensing Opportunities

By music licensing expert Andy Lykens. The C-levels at a music publisher I used to work at would drop by my cube once every few days. All nice people, they. Continue reading

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The Importance Of Local Relationship Building For Your Band

By Drew DePietro of BandHacks. Every band needs to build relationships within their community. Whether it’s with promoters, other bands or production companies and the people within the community. Without. Continue reading

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A Special Thank-You To Hypebot’s Sponsors

As 2013 ccomes to an end. please join us in thanking and supporting the forward-thinking new music industry businesses that sponsor Hypebot and our sister publication MusicThinkTank: ReverbNation – Join. Continue reading

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Warner Brothers Records Names Dan McCarroll President

Warner Bros. Records (WBR) today named Dan McCarroll as President effective January 1st. McCarroll had been most recently been president of Capital Records and prio to that was at EMI publishing.

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Pretty Lights Gave His Music Away & Now Has A Grammy Nomination. Should You Do The Same?

Pretty Lights took a different approach with "A Color Map Of The Sun." Instead of sampling old records he hired a group of musicians and created music from which to. Continue reading

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The Week’s Most Read Post On Hypebot

Best Soundcloud Marketing Campaigns Of 2013 10 Recording Do's & Don'ts Staff Bloodbath @BeatPort Music On Playstation 4 Virality As Music Format Kayne: Racist Grammys U2 Finalizes Live Nation Mgmt. Continue reading

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The 10 Do’s and Don’ts of Recording Your Music

Jesse Cannon is a 15 year music industry veteran and founder of Musformation.com. Aside from producing music, Jesse is passionate about teaching others. His creativeLIVE course on DIY Mastering begins. Continue reading

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16 Musicians To Watch In 2014 From Spotify

Earlier this week I shared Top 23 Musicians To Watch In 2014 based on the contrasting lists from The BBC and Shazam. Yesterday Spotify released its Spotify Spotlight for 2014. Continue reading

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