How To Use Shopify And Single Music To Sell Direct To Fans
[UPDATED] Driving fans to an artist's site only to redirect them elsewhere to purchase a download or t-shirt means lost revenue and a chance to capture valuable fan and marketing. Continue reading
Spotify’s 2018 Top Artists, Songs, Albums and Playlists
Spotify has revealed its 2018 lists of most streamed artists, tracks, playlists, podcasts and more of 2018. Sure, there's plenty of Drake and Ariana Grande. But there are also some. Continue reading
Streaming Services Hold Key To Music’s Diversity [Op-Ed]
Johan Svanberg of indie distributor Record Union looks at the need for music streaming services to become more diverse and egalitarian; not only where gender and ethnicity are concerned, but. Continue reading
5 Things To Consider Before Going Into The Studio
Entering the recording studio can be fun and exciting. But it also involves investing blood, sweat and tears, as well as, of course, money. So it's a good idea to. Continue reading
TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
This week some of our most popular pieces on Hypebot covered a petition urging Spotify, Apple, and Amazon to label indie music, how bot farms are continuing to manipulate streaming. Continue reading
5 Common Mistakes Made By Artists
As an artist striving for success, you're doubtless putting in countless hours of blood, sweat, and tears, but even working as hard as you do, it's easy to make career. Continue reading
Lizzo, Kim Petras, Karen Brooks On Music’s Gender Gap [VIDEO]
Kim Petras and Lizzo have a short but informative discussion with Karen Brooks, a Grammy Award-winner who has a No. 1 single on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Chart about the. Continue reading
The Music Business Is About More Than Just The Big Three
While Sony, Universal and Warner are the music industry's biggest players, there is a lot more going on with the music business that doesn't involve these three giants, as Professor. Continue reading
How Analytics Make All The Difference In A&R, Marketing
In this piece Chaz Jenkins explains why implementing a broader approach to analytics is key to an effective marketing strategy, and why only looking at past data simply doesn't provide. Continue reading