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It is 100% feasible for you to get your first 1 million streams on your music in 1 year. All you need is good music, a hard work ethic and ideally some budget. This strategy revolves around 4 core principles: I can hear you cringing at the idea of making social media content already, but...
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It is 100% feasible for you to get your first 1 million streams on your music in 1 year. All you need is good music, a hard work ethic and ideally some budget. This strategy revolves around 4 core principles: I can hear you cringing at the idea of making social media content already, but...
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In this episode Ben Patterson, president of Downtown Artist & Label Services, and I talk about music marketing, the industry, Spotify's changes and more! Listen on your favorite Podcast platform Important Points: Andrew and Ben talk about Spotify's Discovery Mode which provides additional visibility for artists, but can reduce royalties. That’s why Downtown Music aggressively...
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There are a seemingly infinite number of Spotify promotion services available online. To save you some time, here are the best Spotify promotion services that i've personally tried on my own music. Each of the companies on this list provide streams from real people, not bots. Results may vary but each of these companies are...
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In this Drip review we cover the best features of Drip and how it's an amazing email marketing platform for music artists. Whether you're a music artist, YouTuber or social media influencer connecting with your fans and building a loyal audience is more important than ever. One of the best ways to do this is...
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Spotify Discovery Mode is a free music marketing tool designed to get you more streams from listeners who like music similar to yours. At the time of writing this Discovery Mode is in early testing and comes with its own set of requirements, and access is limited. However there are ways for you to get...
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DistroKid makes it very easy for you to release cover songs on music distribution platforms like Spotify, Apple Music and the rest. In the past, this could be difficult because you'd have to go and secure the cover license yourself and ensure you kept up to date with your licensing. In this post i'll go...
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It is 100% feasible for you to get your first 1 million streams on your music in 1 year. All you need is good music, a hard work ethic and ideally some budget. This strategy revolves around 4 core principles: I can hear you cringing at the idea of making social media content already, but...
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Over the past couple years Spotify has been trying, and failing, to crack down on bot streams on their platform. More artists that have done nothing wrong get their music pulled than artists actually committing artificial streaming. In this post i'll talk about what artificial streaming is, how most artists get caught up in it,...
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Spotify has premium plans and free ad-supported plans. Did you know that the amount of money you get paid per stream on Spotify varies depending on if the user listening is a premium user vs a free user? That's right, not only does the exact value of a stream vary each month, and by country,...
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Read articleIn this episode Ben Patterson, president of Downtown Artist & Label Services, and I talk about music marketing, the industry, Spotify's changes and more! Listen on your favorite Podcast platform Important Points: Andrew and Ben talk about Spotify's Discovery Mode which provides additional visibility for artists, but can reduce royalties. That’s why Downtown Music aggressively...
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In this episode I spoke with Cassie Petrey, founder of Crowd Surf, who has worked on marketing campaigns for Backstreet Boys, Camila Cabello, Paramore and more! Listen on your favorite Podcast platform Important Points: Andrew and Cassie discuss focusing on video content over photos to gain exposure and build an audience online. Well-lit, non-pixelated videos tend...
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Spotify is drastically changing their payment model in 2024, taking a harder (albeit still weak) stance against bots and limiting non-music noise content on the platform. Spotify estimates these 3 changes will add $1 Billion to the royalty pool over the near 5 years. This averages to $200 Million per year in additional royalties. As...
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In this episode Anthony Pacheco from Simpl and I talk about using organic social media content and ads to market your music. Listen on your favorite Podcast platform Important Points: Andrew and Anthony talk about focusing on organic social media marketing first when starting out as an artist, especially if you have a limited budget. Engage authentically...
Read articleThere are a seemingly infinite number of Spotify promotion services available online. To save you some time, here are the best Spotify promotion services that i've personally tried on my own music. Each of the companies on this list provide streams from real people, not bots. Results may vary but each of these companies are...
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In this post I discuss making a six figure income with music, sync licensing, micro licensing and royalty collection with Eric Copeland of Make Music Income and Hello Composers. Listen on your favorite Podcast platform Important Points: Eric and Andrew both agree that it’s important to have a multiple income streams. Focusing on one initiative like Spotify will...
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Recently I had the chance to review Playlist-Promotion.com's Spotify playlist service. If you're reading this, chances are that you searched for ‘playlist-promotion review' (or something similar), and you're wondering if they're legit. Yes, from the data in this campaign I can say that Playlist Promotion's Spotify playlisting service is safe to use and completely legit....
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In this episode I speak with Tia Tia & Ryan McMahon, who have written songs for Justin Bieber, Walk The Moon, Sabrina Carpenter, The Chainsmokers and more. They've managed to get to 700k monthly listeners on Spotify in about 9 months on their artist projects. Listen on your favorite Podcast platform Important Points: Ryan and...
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