music career strategy

Music Marketing Digest: Protect Your Career & Grow Smarter

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Music Marketing Digest: Protect Your Career & Grow Smarter

Navigating the Modern Music Landscape This week’s digest surfaces critical lessons for indie musicians: from avoiding promoter scams to leveraging new verification systems. The common thread? Strategic thinking beats blind hustle. Protect Yourself: Verbal Deals and Bot Playlists A hard truth emerges in videos about promoters reneging on verbal agreements and the risks of Spotify … Read more

Why Dropping Singles Is Killing Indie Artists

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Why Dropping Singles Is Killing Indie Artists

Insight: The Single-Release Trap Indie artists have been conditioned to believe that dropping singles is the path to growth, but recent industry insights suggest otherwise. In a hard-hitting interview on No Labels Necessary, LiveMixtapes co-founder Pesh argues that the singles-first strategy is broken. He points out that 98% of songs get under 1,000 streams, and … Read more