Twitter Becomes X, And Breaks Its Brand

How many times have you asked someone for a Kleenex, when you really meant a facial tissue? How about a Band Aid when what you actually wanted was an adhesive bandage, or you thought you were getting into a Jacuzzi, but what you were really doing was lowering yourself into a bubbly hot tub? These […]

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User-Centric Streaming Royalties Might Not Work As Well As Everyone Thinks

It’s not surprising to hear an artist complain about earning a fraction of a penny from a stream, but the fact of the matter is that most artists don’t understand how streaming royalties work, and who can blame them. It’s a pretty complicated digital world out there, but suffice it to say that whenever you […]

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Warner Music And TikTok Make A Deal, But How Does That Benefit Artists Exactly?

Last week Warner Music Group and TikTok agreed to a multi-year licensing deal that might be the start of artists finally seeing real money in their bank accounts from the short-form video app. The agreement allows creators to freely use WMG music on their videos without needing a license. There are two things about this […]

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YouTube Launches AI-Generated Quizzes, But Is That A Good Thing?

YouTube announced that you might be seeing AI-generated quizzes after watching a video soon. The experimental feature in its mobile app is designed to help its users find out more about topics of interest presented in their videos, as well as help YouTube better measure how much a viewer understands the content in a video. […]

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Look Out Twitter, Threads Is Here

If you were a Twitter user and stopped using it either because of the reduced functionality, or the owner, or the changes to your feed, it looks like there may now be a major alternative and it’s called Threads. Yes, there are numerous Twitter knockoffs out there already, but what makes Threads attractive is not […]

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Yes, Copyleft Is Really A Thing

We all know about copyright and how it’s there to protect your creative work. Of course, it’s a lot more involved than that, especially in these digital days where the law hasn’t been updated since 1998. That said copyright has a cousin and it’s called copyleft. Yes, really, no joke, it’s a real thing and […]

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Let’s Bust The 10 Biggest AI Music Myths

There are a lot misconceptions about AI music, mostly because of all the click-bait headlines about AI that one sees almost every day. After working with more than 100 AI apps, plugins and platforms, there are a number of things that I’ve learned that definitely bust some of the AI music myths that you might […]

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YouTube Getting Tough With Fan Impersonation Channels

It’s great to have fans of your work and you should be honored if you do. But fans sometimes go too far by starting a channel that looks and feels so close to the artist’s original channel that hardly anyone can tell the difference. YouTube has finally recognized this as a problem and is cracking […]

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Download Your Spotify Streaming Data History Now Before You Lose It

Many artists are obsessed with their streaming data while others don’t care all that much. Either way, if you’ve been on Spotify for more than 2 years, you only have a few days left before the streaming service deletes your data history from before December 31st, 2020. Even if you’re not that much into data, […]

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It Looks Like Spotify’s High-Resolution “Supremium” Tier Is Finally Coming

Even though Spotify is the market leader when it comes to streaming audio, it’s always been lacking the high-resolution tier of competitors Apple Music, Amazon Music and Tidal. Even though the company announced its introduction was close way back in 2021, it looks like it’s “Supremium” tier is finally coming to fruition. A number of […]

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It’s Now Easier To Monetize Your YouTube Content

In an effort to lure more TikTok users to the platform, YouTube has lowered it’s minimums for being able to monetize YouTube content. Although the previous standards weren’t that high to begin with, it’s even easier now to join its YouTube Partner Program (YPP). The new conditions to qualify for YPP now are: Previously, the conditions were: […]

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Meta’s MusicGen Trained On 20,000 Hours Of Licensed Music, But Is It Any Good?

We’re live in a series of technology hype cycles. If you remember, there was blockchain, crypto, NFTs, Web3, and the Metaverse just in the last few years, and the world seemed to swim around them. Each of these brought the familiar “Music is going to change forever” call from the various parties involved, but (no […]

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The DistroKid Dilemma: A Look at the Takedown Notice Turmoil

Just about every streaming platform now has some way to spot what if thinks are copyright infringements, and while that in itself is a good thing, it’s also not uncommon for mistakes to happen. We’ve all heard the stories about how an artist’s own song received a takedown notice even when the artist owns the […]

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You Probably Want To Know These 7 Facts About Twitter’s Algorithm

It’s not news that so many hard-core and casual users have bailed from Twitter after its “turmoil” this year. That said, if you’re still a user then you probably want to know these new facts about Twitter’s algorithm. It doesn’t work the way it did before, and some of the things it does are counter-intuitive […]

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Why Physical Product Sales Matter More Than Ever for Artists

If you’re an artist in your 30s, you remember the days of the physical products. The older you are, the more types of these your remember, from vinyl, to cassette, to the CD, and the many failed music distribution products in-between (digital cassette, DAT, mini-disc, SACD are just a few). For artists and record labels […]

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