You do not need to wait for a viral song to happen in order to aim your musical trajectory towards being a successful artist. You do not always need a proper music marketing plan in order to make small efforts to keep yourself relevant. Here are a few smaller music marketing strategy ideas that...

One of the reasons we’re seeing more and more indie musicians making it big in the music industry is because of their ability to tell fascinating stories which their fans absolutely love and can relate to. So today, in this blog, I’m going to quickly run you through the steps that you...

In our last blog post about the Top 4 Mistakes Most Artists Make, we talked deeply about a couple things that artists often overlook, and we realised that the list really doesn’t end at 4 when it comes to us artists.

Let’s check the following pattern of mistakes a lot of artists make...

A decade ago, if you had the idea of concentrating your energy on releasing singles instead of writing an album, you wouldn't be taken seriously. However, today, it is a strategy a lot of artists live by. While dropping single after single has its own sweet advantages, it does sometimes feel off...

It is super common to read comments like, “I clicked on this for the cover art and ended up falling in love with this song". Usually, the visuals are the last thing artists think about when it comes to their release. However, thoughtlessness and lack of planning around the visuals leave...

For more than 20 years, musicians have been told that the internet was going to save the music industry. Fast forward to today, artists are generally seen munching on the peanuts that their yearly Spotify royalties could afford them. 

Musicians today receive an average of only 12% of all...

For indie musicians, the music industry has a hard climb. Artists spend months writing songs, spend hundreds of dollars on marketing, and even more so on recording and producing. After that, if they’re lucky, they get paid peanuts. With that being said, a Sync Licensing deal is basically an...

You’re on TikTok, Twitter, SoundCloud, Facebook, Instagram, and a handful of other platforms you barely remember signing up for. Maybe you’re communicating with fans via Snapchat, uploading videos to YouTube, and streaming live concerts via Periscope or Meerkat.

Yes, you do have an...

The real-time lyrics feature has been launched by Spotify in 26 markets around the world. Listeners in participating countries can opt to view lyrics that scroll onscreen, in sync with the music. Any song uploaded via distribution services does not get its lyrics automatically on all the...

Top 4 Mistakes Most Artists Make

To find success as an artist, you need to think of music as a spectrum; there's the art side of it which we all love, and then there's the business side. To make music a sustainable career choice for yourself, you need to be effective in both. While most musicians...