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Podcasts
How Admin Publishing Works, Sync Deals, Social Media Marketing (Ari Q&A Part 7)
This week Ari answers more of your questions! If you’d like to submit to our next round of questions, please sign up to our email list.
Spotify
Spotify Opens Up ‘Discovery Mode’ Wide Enabling Artists To Get More Listeners and Streams – For a Cost
Discovery Mode is basically a program where Spotify will help get you more listeners by inserting your songs into other artists’ radio stations and general “autoplay” sessions - for an additional commission. More on the commission part in a minute.
Income
Best Music Distribution Companies – Full Comparison Chart
This is the most comprehensive digital music distribution review comparison between Amuse, AWAL, CD Baby, DistroKid, Ditto Music, LANDR, TuneCore, Songtradr, and more.
Royalties
How Much Each Distributor Pays For Spotify and Apple Music
All streams are not treated equally.
How much Spotify and Apple Music pay for a stream varies on many factors. There are around 800 different pay rates for each stream on Spotify. Some of the variables include: Country/Territory of the listener
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Income
Songtrust vs. Sentric vs. CD Baby Publishing vs. TuneCore Publishing
Which admin publishing company will work best for you: Sentric, TuneCore Publishing, CD Baby Pro Publishing, or Songtrust?
Spotify
Spotify Removed Your Music, Now What?
Over the weekend, Spotify decided to do a major purge of songs they believe had 'fraudulent streams.' Tens of thousands of songs disappeared from the platform.
Latest News
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."