Spotify Opens Access To Official Playlist Editors To All, Guarantees Release Radar Placement

Spotify has launched a new beta feature that gives artists, labels and their teams a channel to submit unreleased music directly to their editorial team for playlist consideration. The new. Continue reading

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5 Tips To Jumpstart A YouTube Marketing Strategy

While promoting your music may have gotten easier, doing so successfully has only gotten harder. In this piece Joan Selby illustrates how artists can flip their YouTube video marketing strategy. Continue reading

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Why The World Doesn’t Yet Care About Your Music

As a musician, getting the world to pay attention to your music can be one of the most frustrating and heartbreaking tasks you will face. This piece explores why it. Continue reading

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Netflix $9B Stock Tumble Also Offers A Warning For Spotify [Mark Mulligan]

$9.1 billion was wiped off its market capitalization this week, after Netflix missed aggressive targets by analysts, despite solid earnings. As Spotify prepares for its quarterly earning report next week,. Continue reading

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Chance The Rapper Buys ‘Chicagoist’ Entertainment and Local News Site

In a pretty rad business move, Chance The Rapper purchased local news, culture and entertainment website Chicagoist, and announced the news earlier this week in his new song “I Might. Continue reading

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10 Future Music Business Jobs

As with so many industries, advancements in tech are quickly changing and reshaping the music business in several significant ways, with new jobs emerging all the time. Here we look. Continue reading

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New Reality For Music Celebs Sets In As Twitter Slashes Followers

Recent government enforced crackdowns on Twitter in the wake of Russian meddling has led the popular social media site to delete a massive number of bots and fake accounts, dramatically. Continue reading

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THU. BRIEF: Napster Revenue Falls • Mercuriadis Aims For $1B Raise • Chance Buys Chicagoist • More

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Bringing Together Tour, Radio, Fan-Targeted Advertising [CASE STUDY: Nathaniel Rateliff]

In this piece we look at commercial experiment of sorts, in which Concord Music utilized a triple-headed geo-specific marketing strategy to maximize listener consumption of one of its artists.

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Lack Of Streaming Artist, Song Info ‘Is Just D-U-M-B’

in the streaming era the fact that you can't click on a song and see who played on it, who wrote it, who engineered it, who produced it, etc and. Continue reading

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Don’t Wait For U.S. Music Modernization Act: What All Artists Performing In Canada Can Do Now To Get Paid More

With the future of the Music Modernization Act looking uncertain, and things generally not looking great for artists in the performance rights in general, Shawn Wilson offers some advice on. Continue reading

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