Category: The creative life
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Fox Lake Illinois crystal store
I had some time to spare while I waited for the Metra Train in Fox Lake today so I walked to a crystal store to look around. I bought a crystal while there and had a nice conversation with the lady working there. I saw their bulletin board on the wall near the entrance so…
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Why your playlist isn’t getting followers
Music streaming platforms have complicated algorithms monitoring listener behavior, song performance and playlist engagement among many other streaming statistics. I have read that the Spotify algorithm also monitors blogs and other online media to gage off-platform performance of songs and playlists. There are so many things the algorithm is designed to determine and many of…
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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…
Coffee & a Playlist 