Featured Series – Spotify: Playlist Pitching. The gatekeepers of hit songs used to be many: record label and publishing company execs, radio programmers, brick and mortar outlets and distributors, just to name a few. Today though, in an increasingly streaming-driven…
Featured Series – Spotify: Streaming Numbers Put in Perspective. It’s no secret that Spotify is, and has for some time now been, the music streaming industry’s leader, as measured by paying subscribers, total users, revenues and otherwise. But most people…
How music copyright works… Songs are considered “creative works” which means that artists need only record their piece of music in a tangible way for it to be protected by copyright laws. This also means that the creator of the…
Featured Series – Spotify: Pros and Cons of Major Distributors. Our Spotify advice for artists series thus far has been implicitly contingent on you having already uploaded your music to Spotify. But how best to get it there in the…
Featured Series – Spotify: Fresh Finds. As far as music discovery on Spotify goes, the holy grail for underground and/or indie musicians is Fresh Finds. Refreshed each Wednesday, this playlist series combines complex algorithms that leverage big data with loving…
Featured Series – Spotify: Discover Weekly and Release Radar. Spotify has built much of its brand on machine learning and algorithms, employing the former and the latter in a number of different contexts. (This much is evident in the company’s…