Not Ready For A Music Manager? Try An Accountability Team

While you may not yet be ready to employ a full-time music manager, that doesn’t mean that, as a DIY artist, you need to totally go it alone. In fact, there are a number of ways you can expand your team and advance your career without having to fully invest…

Joan Jett Is Finally Available To Stream

The full Joan Jett and the Blackhearts recorded music catalog is available for streaming for the first time. The long due additions comes following a deal between Jett’s Blackheart Records and Sony Legacy. Blackheart was formed in 1980 by Jett and her musical cohort and producer Kenny Laguna. The deal…

How Top Earning Artists Craft Their Musical Legacy

Life as an artist can be unpredictable, and as a successful musician, it’s important to take steps to ensure that your royalties continue to provide for you late into life and beyond. In this piece we look at steps taken by artists and their estates to guarantee that their legacy…

AI Is Creating New Opportunities For Artists, Disruptors

When new technology is introduced to the music industry, artists and musicians often flock to it to create new music, and new businesses. The next tech now positioned to disrupt the music industry is predicted to fill this role is Artificial Intelligence )AI). ____________________________ Guest post by Taishi Fukuyama of…

Rocket Songs Is A Marketplace Of Original Songs

Jonathan Stone of original song marketplace Rocket Songs joins Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert on the Music Biz Weekly podcast. Music publishing is a multi-billion dollar industry that has been mostly undisrupted by the tech and data revolution. Rocket Songs is working change that and democratize music publishing. Music publishing…

32,000+ Songwriters & Authors Urge European Parliament to Pass Article 13

Earlier, we reported that nearly 150 organizations corralled by Impala urged European Parliamentarians to support Article 13.  Now, songwriters in Europe are doing the same. Actually, songwriters are being joined by a far greater class of authors and c…

Inside Indie Artist Macy Todd’s Spotify Playlist Campaign [Cyber PR]

Getting your music on Spotify playlists is the new Holy Grail of music marketing. But making it happen – particularly for an indie D.I.Y. artist like Macy Todd – isn’t easy. Here Ariel Hyatt and her CyberPR team share their methodology and the results. ________________________________ Guest post by Ariel Hyatt…

One Love Manchester Benefit Concert Add Acts

One Love Manchester Concert is organized in solidarity with the victims of May 22nd suicide bombing during a concert by Grande in Manchester.