
YouTube best practices for musicians in 2023
YouTube has become much more than a just place to watch videos. So here is an up-to-date YouTube guide so musicians can learn how to make the most from on. Continue reading

Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Is Ticketmaster the villain? • Battling merch fees & more
Episode #129 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is live. This week on the YMC podcast, your charming hosts. Continue reading

QUICK HITS: Marni Greenberg exits YouTube • $15B in Sweetwater sales • Splice licenses • Reservoir adds Dion
YouTube and Google’s popular Head Of Music Communications, Marni Greenberg, is one of the 12,000 laid off by the tech giant this week. We’ll let you know the lucky company. Continue reading

Is $1 enough? Spotify needs to charge $12.99 to keep up with inflation
Spotify has resisted raising its base $9.99 per month subscription price even as Apple Music and yesterday, Amazon Music have. $10.99 / £10.99 is now the monthly price at the. Continue reading

7 best practices for music promotion on YouTube
Learn how to best utilize YouTube’s marketing opportunities so you can grow your following. by Pete Callaghan of Promoly Music is one of the most popular forms of entertainment in. Continue reading

New J. Cole track was written after he searched for himself on YouTube
J. Cole wrote and released his new track ‘Procrastination (Broke)’ after he searched “J. Cole type beat” on YouTube and found a beat by producer Bvtman. Released just yesterday, Wednesday,. Continue reading

Zach Bryan is taking on Ticketmaster one sold-out show at a time
Zach Bryan is battling Ticketmaster and Live Nation one show at a time and filling venues like Red Rocks with legions of dedicated fans along the way. Bryan started uploading. Continue reading

The year ahead in music: Web 2.5, Hip Hop turns 50, Vinyl, Vintage, Ticketmaster, and more [Jesse Kirshbaum]
Earlier this week, Jesse Kirshbaum, co-founder of Nue, looked back at the trends that drove music and the music industry last year. Now he looks ahead to 2023. by Jesse Kirshbaum,. Continue reading

SoundExchange Top 22 Songs of 2022 don’t include Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift
SoundExchange has created a list of the new tracks that received the most non-interactive streams in 2022 and there are some glaring differences from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and. Continue reading

Jay & Mike share their favorite Your Morning Coffee podcasts of 2022
[UPDATED] Your Morning Coffee Podcast co-hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart share their favorite episodes of the last year. And kudos again to the pair for being named to Variety’s. Continue reading