Podcasts
How Spotify’s Algorithm Works (From Its Creator)
This week, Ari is joined by Glenn McDonald, Spotify’s data alchemist and the creator of the music exploration site Every Noise at Once.
Spotify
20,500 Artists Made $50K+ From Spotify Last Year
Spotify just revealed its annual Loud and Clear report revealing some top level numbers with some granular insights from 2023.
Podcasts
From Gamer to Billion Stream Club as a DIY Artist/Producer
TheFatRat is known to be the world's most influential Gaming Music artist. His music ranges from euphoric progressive house to trap and melodic glitch-hop, with a heavy influence of video game music. The artist’s forward-thinking approach to lift copyright restrictions on his music has led to him having been featured in 30+ million videos from a range of different content creators-collectively accounting for over 29 billion views on YouTube.
Podcasts
Is Music Marketing With TikTok Still Viable
This week, Ari is joined by Suzy Yoder, founder of YO SUZY, an agency specializing in short-form vertical content for musicians.
Podcasts
How TikTok Music Videos Go Viral
This week, Ari is joined by Evan Blum, a director specializing in creating large batches of short form vertical content for musicians.
Podcasts
Building an Artist Management Empire and Breaking Country Artists with Bruce Kalmick
Bruce Kalmick, CEO of WHY&HOW (a full service artist management company), is changing the narrative of "artist manager."
Royalties
If UMG Gets Its Way, Smaller Indie Artists Won’t Get Paid As Much From Streaming
Last week, UMG and Deezer made an announcement that is set to be the biggest upheaval to the recorded music industry payment structure since the launch of streaming.
Podcasts
How To Hack Spotify (and TikTok)
This week, Ari is joined by Ryan Vaughn, Artist Manager at Backline Creative and CFO of Head Bitch Music.
Podcasts
A Sync Licensing Music Executive is Changing the Game
This week on the New Music Business Podcast, Ari is joined by Jessica Vaughn, Head of Sync at Venice Music and President of Head Bitch Music.
Podcasts
SoundCloud is Allowing Artists To Contact Fans (and Get Paid More)
Joining us this week on the New Music Business are SoundCloud’s very own Tracy Chan (Chief Content Officer) and Emmy Lovell (Global Head of Music).
Latest News
Selling out Clubs With Very Few Followers? This DIY Band Is Making It Happen.
This week, Ari is joined by the band DOUBLECAMP to discuss how they built such a successful independent career.