Since not every song arrives on YouTube with an accompanying music video or visual content, YouTube has introduced Art Tracks, which automatically populates artist’s audio tracks for them. _____________________________ Guest post by Chris Lejuez of The Orchard’s The Daily Rind If you’ve listened to music on YouTube within the past…
Category archives: Indie Labels
CD Manufacturers Can’t Keep Up With Demand
In recent weeks, four hit titles from UMG have sold out and put on backorder or never made it to stores for their release dates. Causes of the shortage include unexpected demand, reduced manufacturing capacity and a shift of factories to Mexico. CD orders that once took 10 days to…
Pandora Adds Christine Colbert To Indie Relations Team
Pandora has named Christine Colbert as Senior Manager, Industry Relations – Indie. She joins the streamer from Warp Records, where she was North American Project and Communications Manager, working with such artists as Brian Eno, Aphex Twin and Grizzly Bear. Christine Colbert Prior to joining Warp Colbert worked at the…
Sub Pop Relaunches Vinyl Singles Club
Legendary Seattle independent label, Sub Pop has announced that it is relaunching its Singles Club for the fourth time following a 10-year hiatus. The subscription-based service, which is scheduled to kick off in April of 2019, will be valued at $130 and will include 12 exclusive 7-inch singles from a…
Canada’s Two Top Indie Distributors Merge
Two of Canada’s leading independent distributors, Toronto’s Outside Music and Montreal’s Distribution Select have today announced that they will merge effective December 1st. Outside, which is primarily a physical distributor, reps hundreds of labels, including Jagjaguwar, Secretly Canadian, Dead Oceans, Captured Tracks and Constellation, Mom and Pop, New West and…
CNCO, Daddy Yankees Top Latin American Music Awards 2018
CNCO, Ozuna and Daddy Yankee were the big winners at the Latin American Music Awards 2018 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood last night. CNCO took home Favorite Duo or Group, Favorite Artist – Pop and Favorite Artist – Pop for CNCO. Ozuna won Favorite Artists – Urban, Album of…
Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y. and Indie Music
In this batch of tips for the music industry’s scrappiest, do-it-yourselfers, we offer wise council on using marketing platforms, how to diplomatically and effectively approach venues for booking, YouTube’s opening up of its channels to more creators, and more! Musician’s Guide to Marketing Platforms [Cyber PR] How To Approach Venues…
Apple Music Ups Latin Game With ¡Dale Play! Playlist
Apple Music is making a play for the red hot Latin music market with ¡Dale Play!, a newly launched playlist of hot Latin hits globally. Each week, the playlist artwork features a different artist hand selected by Apple Music’s editorial team and will act as its face of Latin music…
Spotify Playlist Submission Exits Beta, 1 of 6 Scored Official Playlist Placement
In July, Spotify opened the process of submitting music to Official Spotify playlists – 2018’s holy grail of music marketing – to all artists and labels. The submission tool has now exited beta, and the stats from the first few months are impressive. Since July, more than 67,000 artists and…
Latin Music Boom Here To Stay
After achieving dominance in 2017, the Latin music wave breaking through into the mainstream has showed no signs of stopping. Here we look at the timeline of Latin music’s economic boom. ___________________________ Guest post by William Glanz of SoundExchange Latin music achieved dominance in 2017, with “Despacito” becoming nearly as…