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59 Music Blogs That Are Guaranteed To Listen To Your Song

Frustrated with the process of submitting his music to blogs, Color Theory's Brian Hazard decided to give the service SubmitHub a try and detailed his resulting experience here.

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8 Touring Tips from Smooth Hound Smith

Here the well traveled American roots duo Smooth Hound Smith shares with us their top eight tips for successful touring, whether its learning basic vehicle repair or simply how to. Continue reading

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SoundCloud Integrates With Twitter Moments, Audio Cards

Now that SoundCloud has launched its long anticipated paid streaming music service, we expect to see a flood of innovation as it rushes to find its place in a crowded. Continue reading

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7 Promotional Stunts You Can Pull With Your Leftover CDs

While merch sales remain a strong source of revenue for artists, CDs no longer bring in the cash they once did. Still, compact discs can still serve a variety of. Continue reading

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Live Nation Acquires Founders Entertainment, Governors Ball Festival

Live Nation has acquired a majority stake in Founders Entertainment, parent company of the successful New York festival Governors Ball. First launched in 2011 by a group of independent promoters,. Continue reading

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TUE. BRIEFING: Gaga’s Backplane Burns Out • Ticketmaster To Sell On Facebook • Drake’s 1 Week Apple Exclusive • More

Tuesday 4.12.2016 Music Business News From Around The Web The No-At All-Lean-Startup: Backplane going belly up is about too much, too soon. Updated continuously under our More News tab. 

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UPDATE: 85 Million Streams (50M On Spotify) Push Kayne West’s “Life Of Pablo” To #1

Kayne West's Life of Pablo took the top spot of the BuzzAngle album chart last week with over 82,000 album project units.  It accumulated 85M streams, meaning 70% of consumption came from streaming,. Continue reading

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THE PITCH: Noted – A Social Music App

Today, social music app Noted uses just 100 words to share their story with the Hypebot community. It's part of our ongoing series called THE PITH,  which gives early stage. Continue reading

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8 Common Email Newsletter Mistakes To Avoid

For artists, email newsletters are a great way to both keep in touch with fans and regularly market your content, but they must be handled delicately, as a poorly constructed newsletter can easily. Continue reading

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Major Labels Ratchet Up Anti-YouTube Rhetoric As The Begin Difficult Renegotiations

The RIAA and the labels it represents have been ratcheting up their anti-YouTube rhetoric, calling out the popular service for paying “meager” royalties. Never mind that these same labels where. Continue reading

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Potential Solution To Piracy Struck Down

The Federal Circuit is holding firm on its decision that the International Trade Commission should not be given authority over digital goods, a decision which has sparked some significant controversy.

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