Spotify for Artists is releasing a revamped app for both iOS and Android today. The new app rolling out this week includes a refreshed design, a new “home” tab with access to resources, personalized artists milestone updates and expanded real-time stats for both current listeners and new releases. Spotify For…
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Stationhead Adds Recording To Free Radio Station Creation App, Driving More Paid Music Streams
Stationhead, the social radio station creation app has added the ability to record shows with music drawn directly from Spotify and Apple Music. The app’s streaming integration eliminates the need for costly licensing while ensuring rightsholders are properly compensated, as well as empowering artists and podcasters to create content that…
YouTube Music Adds ‘Discover Mix’ Playlist
YouTube Music has added an algorithm delivered playlist called "Discover Mix" similar to Spotify’s "Discover Weekly" which helps users discover new songs and artists based on previous listening habits. YouTube Music’s Discover Mix playlist updates every Wednesday and contains 49 songs. A retro neon logo is much like YouTube Music…
What Every Musician Needs To Know About Shazam
Since Apple Music for Artists recently added a feature which shows musicians their Shazam stats, more artists are looking to get their music added to the song-recognition program’s database. Here we walk through the surprisingly easy process of how to make that happen. _____________________________________ Guest post by Greg Majewski of…
Instagram Reportedly To Replicate TikTok Features
Over the past couple of years, TikTok, the brainchild of Chinese tech company ByteDance, has blown up particularly among teens. Not one to miss the party Facebook is now planning to incorporate some of the apps choice features into Instagram in the near future, according to recent reports. ___________________________ Guest…
Roland Acquires Open Lab’s Stagelight, Launches Zenbeats
Music creation app Stagelight has been acquired by Roland Corporation. With the help of the music tech giant, the Stagelight team has developed a new music creation app called Roland Zenbeats. The current Stagelight app will be phased out by the end of the year. Roland has a special offer…
8 Tips To Make Your Email Newsletters Mobile Friendly
Whether you’re an artist or producers, sending a regular newsletter is the best way to stay in touch with fans, clients, or both. Given that so much of email is now consumed smartphones, we’re looking at eight tips to make sure your newsletter is mobile friendly. _____________________________ Guest post by…
Spotify Is Testing In-App Feature To Create Podcasts With Anchor
In a recent test move, Spotify appears to be experimenting with allowing its users to create podcasts from within the streaming platform, inserting a button which, if clicked, will redirect the user to the Anchor app, a user-friendly podcast creation tool acquired by Spotify in early 2019. _________________________ Guest post…
Apple Music Finally Launches A Web Player
Apple Music has launched a web player in public beta. It is available to all users worldwide and marks the first time that the music streamer has been officially available on the web. Hundreds of thousands of Apple Music users have flocked to unofficial web players. The new Apple Music…
What To Do When A Fan Posts A Video From Your Show On Instagram
While some artists may be strongly opposed to fans posting footage of their concert on Instagram (as they certainly have the right to be) other artists love the idea, seeing it as a source for free promotion. Indeed, if you discover such footage, there are a number of things you…