Author: Thirty Seconds
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Why the ‘New Music Business’ Needed Its Own Book
Seventeen years ago, when I left school in Minnesota one science credit shy of a music business degree, I thought I knew exactly what to do to become a professional musician. It was 2005, the industry had just been turned upside down by Napster and iTunes, and while my studies at this (now defunct) music…
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Unsigned does not equal crap
Now the dust has settled a little, was Radio X DJ Chris Moyles right to say what he did? Are most unsigned bands crap? The short answer is no. I think this is a very disingenuous statement that is nothing short of an insult to unsigned bands; he is very much wrong. Chris Moyles’ statement…
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Someone scanned my music marketing coffee mug QR code today
I was walking with my playlist promotion coffee mug today and someone asked me about it so I said “scan it”, and they did. The QR code took them to the coffee mug playlists page on submittoplaylists.com When I first designed the coffee mug artwork I was hoping that it would stand out enough to…
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What’s so special about Spotify music promotion services?
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Spotify is one of the biggest music services nowadays and the target platform of every music artist. No wonder that many artists want to upload their tracks on Spotify because it gathers an enormous number of listeners. But, if you are a beginning artist trying to find…
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I Signed A Big Record Deal And Thought I’d Made It. I Had No Idea What I Was About To Face.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/signed-big-record-deal-thought-140032386.html
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So many years in and still going
Thinking back to almost 20 years ago when i first wrote these songs it’s hard to believe that so much time has gone by. So many years of writing and recording and all the work that has gone into these songs. Seeing them come together in their re-recorded form is one of the most fulfilling…
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Can independent / DIY bands generate enough buzz to be as powerful as a major label?
Let’s find out! Click on the image below to visit the pinboard playlist page.
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Spotify’s new AI-powered DJ creates and annotates custom playlists
[ad_1] Spotify’s latest feature is an AI-powered DJ that curates and annotates an ever-changing personalized playlist. Spotify describes it as an “AI DJ in your pocket” that “knows you and your taste in music so well that it can choose what’s played for you”. We’ll have to test the feature for ourselves to see how…
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NFTs Required to Access Premium Playlists — Lets Collect NFT
Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming platform announce a new pilot program – NFT Playlists. This new experience aims to revolutionize the way people listen to music. The NFT playlists allow unique NFT holders to offer an exclusive music experience for members of Web3 communities. The first few web3 communities that access this pilot feature […]…
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Independent Music
‘Indie’ does not refer to a style of music as it was originally developed from the shortened form of ‘independent’ which was used to describe bands who were independent of any major commercial record label. These bands were signed to small start-up labels or who for one reason or another they chose to publish their…
Coffee & a Playlist 