May 27, 2021 There are so many ways to promote your music online. It depends on how much time you can spend on the digital promotion of your music. They’re some of the easiest ways which can help you to promote your music to a larger audience than any other platform.
May 26, 2021 Advice, Content marketing, Creativity, DIY tagged Advice, Content, Creativity, DIY, inspiration May 26, 2021 As an artist or musician you may be curious about the listening habits of music consumers in China. Here at Musicinfo, we asked 38 Chinese students who worked on one of our recent research and development projects about the services they use, the kind of music they like, when they listen to music and more.
May 25, 2021 In-ear monitors or IEMs are earpieces that musicians use to hear themselves during live performances. While performing in loud concerts, it is hard to hear yourself; using in-ear monitors, musicians will listen to themselves. They also have noise isolation and cancellation to eliminate external noises.
Music Tech tagged earbuds, headphones, in ear monitors, musicians May 21, 2021 Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” grabbed me (and the rest of the planet) by the lapels and wouldn’t let go when I first heard it. The musicologist side of me wondered why.
Well, after examining it, I think I’ve figured out why the song has such staying power. Here’s a breakdown of the song from beginning to end, and pretty deep in between, too. In case you haven’t heard the song yet (or have been abducted by alien lifeforms and just been returned to Earth), here it is:
Songwriting tagged Olivia Rodrigo, composition, songwriting May 21, 2021 Guest post by Carla Malrowe. This article originally appeared on Soundfly’s Flypaper
Lyrics are very personal; no one can, or should, tell you what to write. However, how you write comes down to skill. And lyric writing as a skill, just like any other, can be improved through open-minded exploration and growth-minded practice.
Today, I want to talk about a new way of approaching lyric writing. It entails using sensory and cinematic stories to relay your core song message. It’s a process of deep exploration to achieve a unique expression.
Songwriting tagged Songwriting Tips, composition, lyrics, songwriting May 20, 2021 You don’t have to be unique to make it as a performing musician, but it sure helps! Having a unique style and presentation (or more pragmatically, “brand”) is key to helping your and your music standout from the crowd, as well as providing a point of connection with your audience.
May 19, 2021 Guest post by Dre DiMura. This article originally appeared on Soundfly’s Flypaper
The internet is ripe with resources (free and paid) for amateur producers, mixers, beat makers and songwriters alike. In fact, there’s no end to the ways you can improve your skills with content and recommendations that address your every need. But in all that vastness, where do you begin?
Sorting through hundreds if not thousands of blogs is exhausting, and can even be detrimental to your process, as you try to delineate between different methods, techniques, and opinions for achieving the same sonic ends. The good news is, we’ve done the research for you!
DIY, Production tagged audio production, music prod, production, recording May 15, 2021 
May 13, 2021 As the world slowly reopens, artists are pulling the tarps off their touring vans, changing their strings, and getting ready to once again hit the road, but while the light at the end of the tunnel has unquestionably gotten brighter, with more and more shots in arms, anything resembling “normal” touring remains a ways off. Here, we look at a few tips for how to ease your band (and your audience) back into live music.
Advice, Live Music, Touring tagged Advice, live music, pandemic, performing, touring, venues May 13, 2021 “The Right Producer Can Make All The Difference!” is an upcoming webinar featuring the co-founders of ItyDity and sponsored by Bree Nobel of Profitable Musician. The Webinar is focused on how songwriters fail to achieve the professional recording sound they want due to three major roadblocks: Working with the wrong producer A lack of knowledge, tools and communication Getting jerked around
May 12, 2021 Music analytics platform Viberate, which just created and sold the first-ever live gig NFT in cooperation with Techno veteran UMEK, published a new music report examining the fastest rising genres in the year that pressed pause on the live event industry. As the data shows, three groups proved to be better prepared for facing the “new normal”: Pop, Hip Hop and Latin artists.
The report pinpoints and examines the music genres that increased their fanbases on Spotify, YouTube and Instagram the most in 2020, calculated from the number of followers accumulated by the top 1,000 fastest-rising artists on each platform.
Genre, Online Content tagged Listening, genre, music online May 11, 2021 Hit Songs Deconstructed (www.HitSongsDeconstructed.com) last week released its latest hit song trend report, The State of the Hot 100 Top 10: Q1 2021. To download a 24-page complimentary PDF with highlights from the report, visit:http://bit.ly/MTT-Q1-2021 .
