Electronic Frontier Foundation On New ‘Disastrous’ Copyright Proposal
Several controversial copyright bills were snuck into the recent spending package. Now the EFF looks at the latest “disastrous” copyright legislation under Congressional consideration. By Katharine Trendacosta of the Electronic. Continue reading
How To Share Spotify Tracks & Podcasts On Instagram [VIDEO]
It’s super easy to let your fans know about your new track or some new music you’re into – whether it’s a song, an album, an artist, or a podcast. Continue reading
5 Positives For Indie Music After The Toughest Year Ever
While 2020 has been pretty universally agreed upon as a dumpster fire of year by the music industry, there were at least a few bright spots and silver linings when. Continue reading
Grammy Awards 2021 Postponed To March 14 In Conflict With SAG Awards
UPDATED: The 2021 GRAMMY Awards have been postponed to the same day as the Screen Actors’ Guild Awards. The awards will now take place on March 14th, due to rising. Continue reading
Spotify Purged Tens of Thousands Of Tracks For ‘Fraudulent Streams’
Spotify has purged tens of thousands of tracks for allegedly using services that fraudulently inflate streams. Music industry attorney Wallace Collins wrote in a blog post that the number of. Continue reading
How Should We Measure An Artist’s Success On 2021?
Combine a fractured global fanscape with an explosion in data and “the idea of a single measure of artist success looks less relevant and meaningful,” writes MIDiA analyst Keith Jopling.. Continue reading
Selling CDs To Strangers [Case Study]
In this piece, Brian Hazard of the project Color Theory walks us through his recent experiment of pitching a Depeche Mode cover album re-release to strangers on the internet. Guest. Continue reading
10 Uncommon Secrets For Uploading, Marketing, Releasing Your Music
In this piece, music business executive and veteran Benjamin Groff shares his top ten little known secrets for uploading, promoting and releasing your music to the public for maximum success.. Continue reading
Gospel Music: Singing Praise In Age Of Streaming
In Chartmetric’s Black Lives Matter piece for December 2020, they dug into how the nearly century-old tradition of Black gospel continues to thrive today in the modern streaming economy via. Continue reading
3 Things For Amateur Musicians To Remember
A career in music is one of the most fundamentally human pursuits out there, and while it is certainly one of the more challenging jobs out there, a few key. Continue reading
