Social Media Saved the Radio Star: How to Use Social Media & File-Sharing to Your Musical Advantage

Social media has made a new kind of celebrity one-hit-wonder: the viral video. Through the power of sharing, tweeting, and snapping an overnight star is made. Unfortunately, they’ll only shine for about 15 seconds — forget 15 minutes! Social media chan…

Essential Social Media Tips for Artists w/ Drew Morisey x DJ Ravine

In today’s world, social media is absolutely vital to the career of any artist in any discipline. With music it is especially so because, let’s face it, most young people want to be musicians, creating even more of a challenge to stand out. To do this you need to be making music that is fresh […]

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Spotify Launches ‘The Game Plan,’ A 10-Part Music Industry Course For Artists

Spotify is now allowing artists to get the most out of their platform with new music industry courses called, “The Game Plan.” The new series will help artists take their career up a notch with the help of music legends and Spotify insiders such as glo…

How Musicians Can Make the Most Out of Facebook’s Upcoming Changes

Facebook Apocalypse for Musicians & Artists? The following comes from Savvy Musician Academy, a proud partner of DMN committed to educating a brand-new class of successful musicians. If you’re a musician, artist, or content creator and you pay atte…

My Facebook Page Got Hacked: 5 Bands Share Their Living Nightmares

Facebook page hacked?  You’re not alone — and Facebook probably isn’t going to help you out.  Here are some brutal stories shared by bands hit by hackers.  Warning: they’re not pretty. Not only is Facebook ripping down artist accounts for copyright violations.  We’re now learning that they’re completely unavailable when an artist page gets hacked. Basically, […]

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Tyler the Creator Just Deleted His Twitter Account (and Instagram’s Next)

Is social media burning artists out?  Just weeks after Selena Gomez admitted she was terrified of Instagram, Tyler the Creator has deleted his Twitter account.  And threatened to nuke his Instagram account as well. An icon of the rap world has now nuked his Twitter account.  And he’s probably happier because of it.  The deactivation […]

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