While you’re likely using the social media majors like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to promote your music, you may be frustrated with how little it’s done to actually boost your music’s performance. In this free workshop, Bobby Owsinski offers some pointers for musicians and engineers on how they can get…
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REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
It’s been a busy week in the music industry, so we’re taking a minute to revisit some of the most important news stories from the past seven days including Live Nation’s impressive revenue gains, a new survey illustrating just how important music is to people, the Woostock 50’s insistence that…
TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
Some of our more popular articles on Hypebot this week covered how music creators can "stay in love" with the craft of songwriting, how Spotify’s continued expansion is slowly killing niche music genres, some recent updates to Facebook that have made it a better place to market music, and more!…
Who Are Your Biggest Fans? Quiz Your Instagram Followers To Find Out
As part of a great new feature, Instagram is now offering its users a ‘quiz’ option. Similar to their Question Sticker, this new aspect of the social media platform will allow users to ask multiple choice questions, with up to four answers to choose from. ______________________________ Guest post by Manager,…
How To Contact Blogs, Playlists In 6 Steps
Blogs and playlists have become some of the most important channels for getting music from its creator into the ears of potential fans, but getting through to these tastemaking powers that be is no easy task. Here we look at six effective and appropriate ways to contact blogs and playlists….
6 Techniques For Optimizing Your Instagram Page
As should be obvious to everyone by now, Instagram has become one of the most valuable social media tools available to artists, particularly when it comes to making big announcements or keeping in touch with fans. Here we look at six ways you can take your Instagram presence to the…
3 Music Streaming Services Offer Emerging Artists Programs
In many ways, being an artist is harder now than it’s ever been, and the path to music industry success is crowded with obstacles. Streaming services have taken note of this challenge however, and several of them have been working to put programs in place designed to help emerging artists…
Copyright Directive: Can We Avoid Rotten Apples Through An Early Harvest? [Neil Turkewitz]
Now that the EU Copyright Directive has (for better of for worse) passed into law, in this Op-Ed Neil Turkewitz takes a long and hard look at what the fallout from this new legislation, and looking ahead to how we can build a more creator-friendly world of fair compensation and…
Grow Your Email List, Make A Profit By GIVING AWAY Your Albums
While it may seem counterintuitive to simply give away albums that you’ve poured so much blood sweat and tears into, this new piece from Chris Robley reveals how giving away CDs in pursuit of growing your mailing list can, ultimately, be profitable. ___________________________ By Chris Robley of CD Baby from…
10 Best Day Jobs For (Aspiring) Full-Time Musicians
Making a living from music is hard enough, and when your just starting out it can seem nearly impossible. Luckily, there are some jobs out there that can mesh pretty well with the career of an aspiring musician, and even give you some valuable experience along the way. _____________________________ Guest…