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The correct way to handle royalty shares
With the controversy around Ian Urbina and The Outlaw Ocean, I thought it’d be a good time to share my thoughts on royalties, music rights, and what you should do when given opportunities that require signing a cut of your royalties away. Let’s begin with the obvious answer to the above statement: the correct way…
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5 Simple Steps to Promoting New Music
As little as 10/15 years ago, promoting new music and getting your music on iTunes to a more mainstream audience was a complicated process that required paying companies like CD Baby to distribute your music. Back then it cost a pretty penny, too. Instead, you had to suffice with MySpace and SoundCloud (which was way…
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Should I Pay for Spotify Playlist Placements?
Paying for playlist placements is a pretty hot topic within the lofi/chillhop community, as well as something I’ve experienced outside of it too; Spotify playlists locked behind a paywall, whether it’s PlaylistPush, SubmitHub, via email, or the dreaded Ko-Fi. Simply put, in order to get your music on these playlists, you must pay. This can…
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Best Chillhop & lo-fi Spotify Playlists in 2023
With hundreds of lofi hip-hop, chillhop and instrumental hip-hop, Spotify playlists each themed around certain moods, activities, and other aspects of everyday life, it can be tough to find the right one for you. So, to slim down the choice a little, I thought I’d make things simpler by highlight some of my top chillhop…
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Lofi & chillhop Spotify playlists: The ultimate submission list 2023
If you’re lost when it comes to submitting your lofi hip-hop or chillhop music to Spotify playlists, then look no further – this is the ultimate cheat sheet. Over the past few years, I’ve been compiling a spreadsheet full of lofi and chillhop Spotify playlists and their curators so I can keep track of who…
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How to spot bot Spotify playlists
Over the past few months, I’ve been putting time into promoting and marketing my latest releases, which mostly consist of reaching out to Spotify playlist curators and blogs in the hopes that they’ll feature my music. It’s a lengthy process, but one that I’m happy to do nonetheless (and you should too!). While I expected…
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Why looking for a label is old fashioned thinking
Let’s be honest, we all have that dream of being discovered by a label; having that one email come through giving you the metaphorical key to the castle. But is being signed really the be-all and end-all, or is staying Ms Independent the better way to go? While I may not have the definitive answer,…
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How to get Spotify playlist placements – the right way
What I’m about to write won’t be an easy pill to swallow: Getting Spotify playlist placements isn’t a quick fix to getting your music heard and becoming “famous”, it’s just a small part of a much broader marketing strategy. It is an important part, don’t get me wrong, but don’t hang your entire music career…
