YouTube offers tons of features to help creators like you optimize the money they’re making from the platform. Are you utilizing everything they have to offer? If not, here are some big ones you definitely don’t want to miss in 2024…..
SoundCloud has added Buzzing Playlists, a set of genre-specific playlists featuring songs based on genuine fan engagement. These playlists are available to all users…..
The rancorous public battle UMG and Tikok has ended with a “new multi-dimensional licensing agreement that will deliver significant industry-leading benefits for UMG’s global family of artists, songwriters, and labels and will return their music to TikTok’s billion-plus global community”….
Not every songwriter can – or wants to – attract and sign with a music publishing company. Fortunately, there are viable DIY alternatives that still ensure full payment…..
Don’t let your older tracks collect dust in your catalog? If they didn’t shine then, maybe they’ll shine now. Here are three big reasons musicians should revive their back catalog, and a few ways how…..
If you get past the top 5%, dominated by Live Nation and AEG, live music tours and venues in the US are treading water and, in many cases, struggling to survive. The bi-partisan American Music Tourism Act hopes to harness music tourism to change that…..
Bruce Houghton of Hypebot and Bandsintown joins Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert on the Music Biz Weekly podcast to discuss some current events impacting musicians…..
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