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In May 2022 I managed to sell over 100 CD's, and in this post i'm going to show you how. Specifically I sold 118 CD's to about 78 fans. Many of you might be asking, “who is still buying and listening to CD's in 2022, when music streaming is so convenient?”, but in 2021 over...
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The first step to getting people to listen to your music is to release it on all major platforms, such as Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes and more. Whether you're a new artist and you want to release your first song, or you've been making music for a while but never finalized it and released it,...
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Listen on your favorite music platform here: https://streamandrew.com/black-hole.OWE Eye to Eye Lyrics: One day you realizeWe come from different livesYou'll never see our liesWe'll never see your cries Pass alongSilent we areDutiful but strayCast asideIn the frayI am nothing but afraid We come from different livesWe don't see eye to eyeWe come from different livesOne...
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Click here to listen on your favorite platform: https://streamandrew.com/black-hole.OWE Black Hole Lyrics: Pure heartInnocentTwisted and differentEmotionalI'll take advantage though When I see into your eyesI can feel the dark insideIf I crawl into your soulI'll be filling the black hole My DarkPassengerIs just the messengerHopelessSacrificeI'll be there to take your life I'll wrap you up...
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Use our handy-dandy calculator to calculate royalties for Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Deezer and more! Streaming Revenue Calculator Streaming Service: SpotifyApple MusicAmazon MusicDeezerYouTube MusicTidalPandoraDeezerSoundCloudiHeartRadioNapsterQobuzGaanaJioSaavnHungama MusicAnghami Number of Streams: Your Royalties Share (%): Select Stream Location: Worldwide (Average)North America (Average)– United States– Panama– Canada– Costa Rica– Dominican Republic– Honduras– El Salvador– Mexico– Nicaragua– GuatemalaEurope (Average)–...
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Getting on Spotify's Discover Weekly algorithmic playlist is a big deal for music artists. As of right now i've gotten over 430,000 streams from Discover Weekly for my solo music alone. But how do you actually get on Discover Weekly? Spotify doesn't officially say what it takes, but we did some independent research and found...
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The first time I went to order custom CD's for one of my albums I found the process overwhelming, and I made a lot of mistakes. Now that i've gone through the motions several times I thought i'd document it in the hopes of making your life easier. Here's the summary of the whole process...
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My 5th studio album Doublethink is officially coming April 29th, 2022! Every release is exciting but albums are extra special to me because to me they feel like landmarks, lines in the sand, and represent the beginning / end of an era. Doublethink includes 19 songs, 12 of which were released as singles over the...
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In this episode I talk to MMXVII on how he's built his music and YouTube career to pursue it full-time. Right now he has over 30,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and about 7,000 subscribers on YouTube. We cover his music marketing strategies, his music and YouTube journey, and techniques he's used to grow his YouTube...
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Pretty much every advertiser using Facebook ads will have an ad account restricted one day, usually multiple times over your marketing journey. In this article i'm going to talk about why you may have gotten restricted, how to avoid restrictions in the future, and how to appeal a restricted ad account. How to appeal a...
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Many artists have seen their favorite artists using a relatively new release strategy called the waterfall release. However it's not initially clear what the benefits of this strategy are and how you could even do it with your music distributor. In this article i'm going to explain what a water release strategy is, why its...
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I've seen several rumors that the Facebook Pixel will be going away in 2022. People are claiming that this could be the end of Facebook ads as we know it, and the platform itself will be useless to a majority of advertisers that rely on it to promote their brands and businesses. However as far...
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I'm a big fan of using Facebook ads and YouTube ads to promote my music, but that doesn't mean I don't also take advantage of free music marketing strategies. In fact if you only use paid advertising and do nothing else, thats not good either. Plus many people can't afford to spend money marketing their...
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Spotify's Release Radar is an algorithmic playlist updated every Friday that only includes music released in the past 28 days. Fans that follow you will get your music in their Release Radar, but if your song gets enough traction in the first 28 days Spotify may put your song on Release Radar playlists of listeners...
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There are a LOT of ways to waste your music marketing budget nowadays. As an independent artist you probably aren't work with the biggest budget, so i'm going to share the 7 worst ways to spend your marketing budget as an independent artist.
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Feature.fm is a music marketing service provider that provides tools for people to market their music more effectively. They have a diverse selection of tools that may be useful to you as a music marketer and we're going to cover them all in this article. Feature FM's services can be broken up into two general...
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Even though Spotify is king of the castle at the moment when it comes to online streaming, Apple Music still has over 72 million subscribers. Plus Apple Music pays more on average per stream than Spotify does. But how do you actually market your music on Apple Music? In this post i'm going to go...
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Spotify Marquee is a native advertising format inside of Spotify to premium users and free users. You can show a pop-up message inside the Spotify app showcasing your latest release to people who have engaged with your music, and you only pay for the people who click your ad. This is what it looks like:...
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YouTube is the best place to grow an audience online, especially for musicians, music artists, producers and bands. But how do you grow an audience there? I've grown my YouTube to 43,000 subscribers, so let me tell you what i've learned. Before we get too deep I want to point out that you can't expect...
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Spotify for Artists is a required tool for any music artist, so they can see how their music is performing on Spotify. One great feature of Spotify for Artists is the live stream counter, which gives you live stats so you know exactly how your new song is performing. Some people have issues with this...
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I've found Facebook ads to be the most effective way of growing my presence on streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. It allows us to show our music to people interested in similar artists / genres and have access to Spotify on the Facebook / Instagram / Messenger ecosystem of placements. For my own...
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Blockchain technology and NFT's have the potential to make a huge impact in the music industry. Currently most of the websites and technologies are in their infancy, but it's not hard to imagine what they may be like 5 years from now. Large artists have gotten in on the NFT game and are making millions,...
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If you want to be able to use Facebook ads to run conversion ads to promote your music on Spotify and other music platforms, you need to be able to own a domain name and properly set it up for iOS14. Prior to April 2021 you could run Facebook conversion ads for any website you...
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Last week I was launching the debut single for a new band, and I really wanted to be able to setup our profile and pitch our first song to Spotify editorial playlists before our first release came out. However most music distributors don't allow you to make your Spotify for Artists profile until you have...
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