A Cover Is Worth A Thousand Words Who watched Coachella – or should I say Bieberchella – weekend #2? Justin did something I never saw another artist do: He pulled up old YouTube videos of himself on a big screen and sang along to them. I don’t know how it went down live, but from […]
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After you’ve had initial success promoting artists to radio, and are steadily working with increasingly higher profile clients – you’ll want to build on that success and expand. Where do you go next?
To improve in-app workflows, and in-turn make meaningful improvements to our app, we really have to understand our users. What makes them tick and how they do their jobs, in other words, knowing the in’s and out’s of their daily workflow. Over the past year, we spoke with hundreds of users – from music […]
We’ve now made it easier for record labels and artists to create promotional content, review performance tracking results and collaborate with their teams from anywhere in the world. Newly added: Spanish, French, German and Japanese language settings are now available to our suite of promotion and distribution tools. Users can toggle between English and the […]
Beyond talent and songwriting chops, carving out a career as a successful independent artist requires unrelenting dedication. You are a small business – pure and simple. Your understanding of the music business, networking skills, marketing savvy, and your ability to organize and multi-task, will increase over time. But your career will only flourish if, off […]
Distilling and defining the impact of Jazz is a smidge like tackling the proof of a higher power or defining irony. Broad in scope, yet uniquely recognizable, you know it when you hear it but are likely hard-pressed to synthesize the magnitude of its impact: born in African tradition against the backdrop of slavery, jazz […]
In today’s digital climate, promoting your music on social media can be a huge opportunity. As an artist you don’t have to rely on industry gatekeepers deciding whether your music is worthy of getting air time. With social media you have a direct link to your fans and you’re in complete control of what you […]
‘Local conversation and local culture isn’t disappearing necessarily just because we have a world that’s more connected. In fact I think it allows some subcultures to blossom a bit more and for local conversations to have even more power and I think that radio can certainly play a part in that’ – Jared Leto (Thirty […]
While the era of digital music streaming has long since descended triumphantly upon us, terrestrial radio remains and one not to be counted out. So, as an artist, you know that you are the best thing since Arctic Monkeys, Bright Eyes, Adele, what have you. Trick is: you need the world to know that, too. […]
Our latest Pay MPE enhancement makes it easy to save multiple tracks and full albums with just one click. By enabling the “package in .zip file” option and saving from your Account Setting dashboard, any content you select for download will automatically save as a .zip file. Zip files make Play MPE downloads incredibly easy […]