BUSINESS OF INDIE: ADA Promotes McGilvray • Downtown Loves Cats • Metal On YouTube • More
Today's Business Of Indie roundup includes a promotion at ADA, Downtown signing Cats, metal on YouTube, Winter Music Fest details, an impressive CD Baby alliance with Mexico's SACM and more. Continue reading
Music Distribution: Upfront Revenue vs. Revenue Sharing
Once you've finished creating your music, its time to develop a strategy for how you want to release it. With so many digital distributors out, it picking one can be. Continue reading
Sound Royalties, GLAD Empire Partner To Fund Indie Artists
Sound Royalties has announced an alliance with music distributor GLAD Empire. Sound Royalties’ financial solutions offers artists the freedom to maintain their independent careers, retain ownership of their content, and. Continue reading
Why We Need More (Quality) Music Journalism
In this piece James Shotwell argues that, as music industry becomes increasingly crowded with artists, the need for more music journalists grows, and that social media's ability to fill this. Continue reading
Ben Kweller Returns After 5 Years Battling Depression
After a five-year hiatus following what he describes as a ‘near death’ incident, indie rocker Ben Kweller has returned to the music scene with a new album and a new. Continue reading
Eminem Is Only Artist w/ 7 Albums Passing 1B Spotify Streams
Eminem has become the first artist with seven albums surpassing the 1 billion streams mark on Spotify. The milestone comes as his 2000 album The Marshall Mathers LP hits the. Continue reading
Why Spotify Is Actually A Win For Artists, Listeners
While Spotify has been a fairly polarizing company in the music industry since its inception, with many in the business feeling that it's financial practices are less than fair, this. Continue reading
‘Gangnam Style’ Hitmaker PSY Goes Indie
PSY, the hitmaker behind “Gangnam Style,” has announced the launch his own entertainment company, P NATION. PSY left YG Entertainment in May of 2018 following eight years with the label,. Continue reading
