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This Week’s YouTube Music Charts: Ozuna, Marshmello, Imagine Dragons and More
“Taki Taki” hits 1B views on this week’s YouTube Music Chart, making Ozuna the artist with the most videos over 1B views. Marshmello hosted a gaming livestream for 40M viewers, and Imagine Dragons gets their second video in the billion views club and more. This week’s YouTube Music Chart highlights…
BUSINESS OF INDIE: Secretly Moves To AMPED • EMPIRE Adds Staff • A2IM West Coast Mixer • More
In this edition of the Business Of Indie, Secretly Distribution leaves ADA for AMPED, EMPIRE staffs up before some BIG releases, A2IM announces West coast mixer and much, much more. Like Hypebot’s More News section, The Business Of Indie is nestled under its own Indie tab at the top of…
Classical Music Listeners Still Favor CDs
While CDs are certainly in decline, they haven’t vanished from shelves quite as quickly as anticipated. Indeed, when it comes to consumers of classical music, there remains a good deal of interest in this physical music format. ________________________ Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 Sales for CDs keep…
5 Ways Five Artists Met Their Managers
One thing many present day successful artists have in common is a great manager behind the scenes, helping to engineer that success. Here we look at the origin stories of five such matches in music. ___________________________ Guest post from AWAL J Cole, the 1975, Chance the Rapper, Rita Ora, and…
Paid Streaming Will Surpass Free This Year [Survey]
Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and other paid music streaming services hare doing a better job of converting free users to paid, according to new figures from the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). “Streaming has made it fashionable to pay for music again.” Already more males pay to stream music – 24.3%…
3 Reasons It Pays To Be Selfish About Your Time
While there may be an established mentality in the music industry that, in order to be successful, you must constantly be giving it your all, there is in fact a compelling case to be made for being a little more selfish with your time and energy rather than focusing on…
Secretly Leaves Warner Music’s ADA, Signs With AMPED
Independent music label and distribution company Secretly has parted ways with Warner Music Group’s indie arm ADA, and entered into a US distribution partnership with Florida-based AMPED. AMPED, is part of Alliance Entertainment and it its client labels include AWAL/Kobalt, Believe, Empire, IDOL, Lindsey Stirling, Mad Decent, Merge, mTheory, SM…
Kelsy Karter’s Face Tattoo, And How Just $300 Can Rock The World [Video]
In this piece, Jake Udell breaks down the remarkable story of how his management team were able rocket artist Kelsy Karter to the top of headlines everywhere using $300 and a face tattoo. _________________________________ Guest post by music manager Jake Udell from his blog Art of Manager As you may…
Harvey Goldsmith’s Edge Invests $4.5M In Festicket
Festicket has added a $4.5 million investment from music industry veteran Harvey Goldsmith led Edge Investments. UK based Festickets serves as a music festival discovery and booking platform, including accommodations and VIP experiences. The Edge investment comes as an extension of a late 2018 Series D that raised $10.5 million….