How An Artist Grew To 500,000 Monthly Spotify Listeners Without The Use Of Playlists
In this piece, Ari Herstand walks us through the rise of Virginian hip hop artist Lucidious, and how he managed to go from about 150 monthly listeners to 500,00, without. Continue reading
Why Streaming Royalties Will Always Stay Too Low To Make A Living Off Of [Video]
Disc Maker's Tony van Veen details why he believes that streaming services will never pay independent artists enough in royalties for them to make a comfortable living in the way. Continue reading
Pandora AMP Turns 5: Artists Using Free Artist Marketing Platform Up 688% In Last Year
Pandora's free Artist Marketing Platform (AMP) is now five years old and the robust music marketing toolkit has much to celebrate. Artists using the free self-serve platform grew 688% in. Continue reading
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
In our flip back through a full week of music industry news, we look back at CD Baby and Dash Go's expansion into India, Google's new plan to being linking. Continue reading
TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
Some of the most popular and often read articles on Hypebot this week covered how money flows from music streams into the actual artist's pocket, the top SEO Google ranking. Continue reading
