The Essential Music Industry News You Probably Missed These Days

quick rundown of the most useful pieces of news we came across these days

photo: Roman Kraft

You’re probably bombarded every day with news at a rapid pace and the last thing you want is just another news bulletin in your inbox. But with this one we’ll spare you of all the useless disposable info while keeping only the essentials. Like peeling off the banana for you :) This might help you with your musical career, whether you’re an independent record label or artist.

Here we go!

Youtube x pre-saves

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Finally, youtube thought of getting in line with its competitors and launched the pre-save feature, a nice promotional tool when releasing new music. More details here.

Spotify is guiding us on how to release an album without touring

The live concerts industry has yet to see the light at the end of this COVID-19 tunnel and it seems it would stay like this longer than expected. So Spotify has written an interesting feature on how to get your new music out there without organizing a concert tour.

Lost in the music rights / royalties definitions and terms jungle? This article might get you through!

As if it wasn’t enough, the musician is nowadays a marketing manager, PR executive, IT guy (for the livestreaming setups) and law consultant (for figuring out the music rights issues). If you feel lost in the legal forest, be sure to check out this piece of information

Why aiming to pitch to the smaller playlists first might be a good strategy

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Yeah, we all want that RapCaviar playlisting! Or whatever editorial playlist has a juicy 7 figures followers. But this might be a super long shot. Longer than a Long Island Ice Tea. Yet, as we’ve detailed on our article about how to build up a successful music career, you might want to take it step by step in order to achieve success. This article might help you understand how the playlist pitching process might work for you.