What Your Taste In Music Says About Your Spending Habits

Connecting what we listen to with how we act or what we buy has always been somewhat hit or miss. It’s almost like equating how someone dresses when they go out to a club or concert with what they wear to work. Sometimes it matches but most of the time it doesn’t. That being said, […]

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Here’s Why You Can’t Upload Directly To Spotify

Did you ever wonder why you can’t upload your songs directly to Spotify? How about Apple Music or Amazon Music? Why can the record labels do it but an indie artist can’t? If you remember, Spotify did have a direct upload program, but it ended on July 1st, 2019 without a word as to why. […]

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Why There’s Confusion Over Sharing Your Music

When it comes to sharing your music, there’s often a dilemma about exactly what to send – file or stream? Obviously consumers want streams as do many music professionals, but there are also exceptions as well. When it comes to collaboration, mix or master checking, promotion, and radio, to name a few, then files are […]

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Two Men Steal More Than $20 Million In YouTube Scam

For all the musicians and songwriters out there who are frustrated with the royalty payouts from YouTube, maybe it’s time to explore your royalty statements a little closer to make sure that you’re getting everything you deserve. In perhaps the boldest YouTube scam yet, two men where recently charged with collecting around $20 million in […]

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Thank you For Naming Us In Your Top 10 Music Blogs, Bandzoogle

It’s always nice to be recognized, and it’s especially good to come from a site like Bandzoogle that specializes in helping musicians. Thank you for naming the Music 3.0 blog to your Top 10 Best Blogs For Bands And Musicians! Much appreciated! Also named was Hypebot, which reposts many posts from this blog as well.

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Adele Proves You Can Break Today’s 3 Common Release Rules

There’s a lot of generally accepted wisdom about how you go about releasing music today, and for most artists that hold true. Not for a superstar like Adele, who, once again, proves that if you’re big enough you can ignore the rules that everyone else plays by. Rule #1 Broken – You Need A Constant […]

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Yes, There Is A Formula For A TikTok Hit

We’ve seen how much a social platform can influence music over the last ten years as the emphasis has travelled from platform to platform. First it was MySpace, then YouTube, then Instagram, with the latest being TikTok. In each case there’s a way to stage a song that’s more agreeable to listeners of the platform, […]

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The Not-So-Obvious Reasons Why TikTok User Growth Is So Fast

If you’ve payed any attention at all during the last 10 years or so you know that when a social network catches on, it grows fast. That’s been the case for everything from MySpace to Facebook, but none of those are anything like TikTok. Right now the platform has a bit over 1 billion active […]

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Widely Viewed Content – This Is What People Actually See On Facebook

If you listen to all the news reports, Facebook users are inundated with misinformation posts mostly coming from foreign entities. As so much in the news, something that is actually a minor issue may be made out to be a far larger problem than it really is. That’s what Facebook would like you to believe, […]

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These Are The Current Trends In The Music Business

Data can tell us a lot of things, and if we look at it with an eye to the future, it can tell us what’s trending and what’s not. MRC Data and Billboard teamed up for their annual Midyear Report for 2021, and it really tells us a lot about the current trends in music. […]

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This Segment Of People Actually Listen To Your Music On The Radio

Despite what you might read, it seems like radio is taking a bit of a back seat to streaming. The reality is that it’s not done yet. In Edison Research’s latest “Radio Is Everywhere” study, approximately 156 million people age 18+, or about 63% of U.S. adults, still listen to AM/FM radio daily. While that […]

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Want To Know How Much Artists Get Paid From Spotify?

You may already have your songs on Spotify, so you know how much you’re making from the statements you’re receiving, but that data you’re seeing might be more useful if you could compare it to other artists. Now there’s a tool that not only allows you to see how much popular artists get paid from […]

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Congrats You’re An Influencer And This Is What You Can Expect To Make

There are 2 steps to becoming an “influencer” on any platform – you need a substantial following and you need a brand to sponsor your posts. Assuming that you’ve reached those two levels, you’re probably wondering how much a typical post makes. Many influencers fake what they’re doing and how much they’re making, but a […]

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Why YouTube Music’s Latest Figures Are Actually Good News For Artists

YouTube Music’s recent announcement that it has reached 50 million paid subscribers had an instant effect on the music industry, as executives rushed to congratulate the platform and its execs on a bang-up job of going from also-ran to a real competitor in music streaming. While it’s one thing for the insiders to acknowledge the […]

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YouTube Opens A Performance Venue With Its New YouTube Theater

What do you do after you become one of the largest online tech companies in the world? You open a traditional physical performance space. That’s exactly what YouTube has done with its new 6,000 seat YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California. YouTube Theater was built from the ground up in a 10-year partnership with Hollywood Park, […]

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