While a lot of industry focus is put on selling or – more often – streaming music, the reality is that many performers pull in much of their revenue from live shows. Given the costs and risks commonly associated with putting on live shows, more and more artists are looking…
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Releasing A Single: 10 Best Strategies For 2019 & Beyond
Releasing a single track in 2019 is a very different animal than it once was, and presents a set of unique challenges and opportunities. In this piece Chris Robley offers the promotion and distribution tips needed for planning the release of your next standalone track. ____________________________ Guest post by Chris…
Getting Your Fans To Be Obsessed With Your Music
If you want to succeed as a musician, it is essential to focus on your craft as an artist, and make your fans obsessed with your music. Here, Cari Cole reveals three secrets for making your music pop and getting your fans to perk up and take notice. ______________________________ Guest…
Journey Of A Track: Navigating The Playlist Ecosystem
In this recent article from Chartmetric analyzing music data, their playlist analyzer takes apart the Spotify, Apple Music, and Deezer playlist ecosystems to help artists formulate optimal trajectory for their tracks. _____________________________ Guest post by Nuttiiya Seekhao of Chartmetric Artists and their teams understandably have many playlist performance questions: “Given…
5 Major Promotion Opportunities To Consider When Releasing Your New Music Video
As navigation of the video marketing landscape becomes increasingly difficult, more and more artists are running into challenges successfully launching music videos or other types of visual PR. Here we look at five resources that can make all the difference in making your marketing campaign a success. __________________________ Guest post…
6 Music Industry Side-Hustles Artists Can Pursue
As a musician, making enough money to pay rent and buy food is tough enough as it is, but being able to pull down enough income to afford things like PR and interesting merch can often seem out of reach. Luckily, be a musician also opens you up to a…
Spotify Hopes To Make Money From Artists With SoundBetter Acquisition
In an an effort to appease shareholders and pull down a little more cash for its aritst, streaming giant Spotify recently acquired SoundBetter, a company which helps book musicians and producers while taking a commission for the service. Whether the gamble will pay off, however, remains to be seen. ___________________________…
Step By Step Guide: 4 Eventbrite Email Templates For Driving Attendance
In the current marketing climate, someone can easily unsubscribe from your mailing list at the drop of a hat, so rather than risk alienating potential show attendees with banal, generic emails, we here look at four alternatives guaranteed to engage your audience. ____________________________ Guest post by Sophia Vaccarro of Eventbrite…
The Tricky Business Of Balancing Dreams, Expectations In The Music Business
When it comes to cultivating a career in the music business, it’s important to give your all in investing your creative energy. On the flip side of that, however, it is also necessary to keep your expectations reasonably low, lest the inevitable setbacks which you will face leave you demoralized…
Fierce Panda Records: UK Label With Fresh Talent On The Roster [INTERVIEW]
ReverbNation recently sat down to chat with storied UK record label Firece Panda Records, a UK label with an impressive resume and some promising new artists on the docket, about their work over the past 25 years, the challenges of operating as an indie label, what they look for in…