Music Industry Hacks – 750+ Music Industry Tools, Tips & Resources

Stamper Discs

Sheffield based electroforming for the vinyl record industry, making 12″ and 7″ stampers for Viryl, Toolex and Newbilt moulds, as well as for many legacy presses. We work closely with several of Europe’s leading mastering and cutting houses, and can manage lacquer cutting on your behalf.

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Bandbond Metal App

Missing social media updates from your favorite metal bands? Within Bandbond you will get everything. The Bandbond app is 100% hard rock and metal. This is also a place to meet other fans, check out the tour calendar and watch exclusive interviews.

Vinyl Postcards

Inspired by the vintage record postcards that were sold in the 60s and 70s, we redeveloped the idea of this format. We are able to produce the Vinylpostcard in vast numbers, tailored to your needs. Combined with the Vinylpostcards AR App, Vinylpostcards are the perfect music and related media format of the 21st century. Playing time […]

Music X Green

Music X Green is a directory to create more visibility for organisations and initiatives that make the music industry greener, less impactful on the climate and ecology, and more sustainable overall. By making it easier to find and share best practices, organisations, products, and research, I hope we can accelerate the progress towards our sustainability […]

Promoly

Promoly helps creatives distribute their audio content over email and social media. With just one streamable link, you can turn your audio content into an attractive landing page for distribution to your email list and social network.

Podcast Music

One stop music licensing for podcasts. Label and production music together in one solution. Our specially designed license for podcasting covers you from end-to-end. All PodcastMusic.com music is free and clear to use on the leading podcast apps and websites.

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RPM Records

Copenhagen, Denmark based vinyl pressing plant using the new Viryl Technology WarmTone record presses. 140g and 180g heavyweight 12 inch vinyl in runs from 100 units in black and coloured vinyl options. Current production time (April 12 2022) 2-3 months for test pressings, entire order 2-3 months after the test pressing approval.

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Kuroneko

Kuroneko Phonogram Manufacture is a Warsaw-based vinyl records pressing plant opened in 2018. Specialising in quick manufacturing lead-times and a 100% in-house production – cutting, galvanic, pressing and packaging. 12 inch pressings in black or coloured vinyl in 140/180g weights. Approximate 24 week turn around.

Making Vinyl

Making Vinyl’s networking platform provides opportunities for vinyl record makers, their consumables suppliers, content developers, turntable manufacturers, record stores and the record label to do business and learn from each other.

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Fiverr Album Cover Designers

Hundreds of designers available on crowdsourcing website Fiverr.com offering CD and album cover design, mixtape covers and music artwork of varying quality and price ranges, from a fiver upwards to Pro verified artists running into the hundreds of £££.

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Takt Direct

Takt Direct are one of the largest vinyl pressing plants in Europe, headquartered in Graz, Austria and specialise in every aspect of record manufacturing and packaging. Offering 7 inch, 10 inch, 12 inch and picture disc formats, coloured vinyl and heavyweight vinyl. Offices in the UK and Poland.

UnitedMasters

UnitedMasters delivers the tools you need to manage your music business. Release music to all major streaming platforms, buy and sell beats, promote your music, and manage your earnings with the Apple iOS and Android apps. Get paid monthly through PayPal. Join UnitedMasters Select to keep 100% of your earnings and access premium benefits, or […]

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What Is An ISWC?

The International Standard Musical Work Code was implemented to set up a uniform identification system for tracking the use of compositions, which in turn helps rights holders get paid. This guide, from Exploration.io will explain how this foundational identifier works with the music business, it’s history, and how to get these codes for a composition.

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Platform & Stream

Platform & Stream is a hand-curated newsletter for everything important in music streaming. New innovations in streaming technology, monetization, and digital music distribution. The latest streaming music platforms, new creation tools and music-tech startups and important stories on music data and listener behaviour, music licensing and copyright.

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Audius

Audius is a digital streaming service built on the blockchain that connects fans directly with artists and exclusive new music. Build a fanbase, share your works in progress and then publish your completed tracks for all the world to hear. Create, grow, and monetize, all without the need to graduate off the platform or sign a […]

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Vinyl Record Pressing Plants Directory

International directory of vinyl record pressing plants, brokers, lathe-cutting, lacquer mastering and record packaging services, from one off lathe cuts up to full service dedicated vinyl pressing plants worldwide.

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LabelGrid Tools WordPress Plugin

Go the self-hosted route by using the WordPress plugin LabelGrid Tools for Record Labels and Distributors and automate publishing of your own album and artist landing pages, smart link pages, pre-save pages and artist profiles which will greatly enhance your WordPress site’s search engine optimization and site stickiness.

Amplify

Smart links for music marketing. Brand your experience head to toe, with smart link and bio link pages built for music. Link to your music and content across all streaming platforms and elsewhere on the web. All tools are free to use for everyone, everywhere.

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Restream

Restream allows you to broadcast live video to 30+ social networks at the same time. Reach a wider audience by streaming to multiple platforms at the same time. Restream is natively integrated into top streaming software, like OBS Studio, SLOBS, Elgato, XSplit, and many others.

Other Record Labels

Helpful tools, courses, and resources for independent record labels of all sizes and stages. Free Record Label Toolkit. A massive free resource for new and existing indie record labels. Including a sample recording contract, checklists, coupons, social media templates, and more.

Music Industry Therapist Collective

The MITC is a collective of therapists with an abundance of experience of working within and around the music industry in various roles across all sectors. Each therapist in MITC has their own unique music industry experience and psychotherapy specialisms to help provide the best care possible for our clients.

Work Hard Playlist Hard Book

The Work Hard Playlist Hard book by Mike Warner teaches artists at any level how to grow their audience on streaming services. Now updated with 130 more pages to include the latest in digital music, this second edition covers everything from growth hacks for TikTok and Twitch to new artist tools for YouTube and Beatport. Now […]

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MusicSubmit

Paid promo service. Begin your promotion by uploading your music, photos, videos, bio, press release, and social media links. Once you choose a submission package your music and bio will be submitted to a combination of internet-based music resources including radio stations, online music magazines, blogs, and podcasts.

New Music Business

Ari Herstand is the best-selling author of How To Make It in the New Music Business. In this podcast, he deconstructs the brightest minds in the music industry, digging deep to find the tools, tactics, and strategies that listeners can use to run successful careers of their own. Ari offers straight talk with no fluff […]

Radar Music Creatives

Radar connects the music industry with filmmakers, designers and photographers worldwide. New and experienced exclusive creatives, specialising in visual content and the music business.

Centralized

The world’s first automated digital manager for emerging musicians and managers, providing them with guidance, control over their careers and connection to the music industry. Manage your act easily and with step by step guides with explanations through everything you need to do to manage your music, setting up your foundation, playing shows, releasing music, […]

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Press On Vinyl

At Press On Vinyl we have invested heavily in the latest cutting edge vinyl production machinery and software, we have four brand new Viryl WarmTone presses. We can produce anything from traditional 12 inch black vinyl records (140 and 180gsm weights) as well as various opaque colours. 12-16 week lead time.

DistroDirect

Run a fully featured and automated white label music distribution service. Your Artists, Your Brand, Your Website. Designed for any active music business, including labels, recording studios, producers, artist managers, music tech companies or collectives who want to offer more for their artists and generate additional recurring income.

Onescreener

Create your Onescreener website in ten minutes, build and publish a slick website in just five easy steps. Onescreener is essentially a personal promo page creator that makes a perfect link-in-bio for Instagram and acts as a customizable hub for links and content. You can create and promote a Onescreener page within minutes for free.

Bandzoogle

Launched in 2003, Bandzoogle is the all-in-one website platform for musicians. Choose from dozens of modern mobile-ready templates for musicians and customise your layout, fonts and colours without any coding. Easily create a professional electronic press kit to share with media and industry. Add a store in just two clicks and start selling music, downloads, […]

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Covers 33

The highest quality accessories, packaging and cases for vinyl records, CDs and DVDs. Music mailing envelopes and packaging for 7/10 and 12 inch vinyl records, CD and DVDs.

Tabs Out Cassette Podcast

All cassette podcast focusing on noise, weird, outsider music, experimental sounds and cassette culture.

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Audiohype Digest

Newsletter and blog featuring insights from the intersection of music, marketing, and technology, watching Web3 collide with music.

Ampled

Ampled is a co-operatively owned, values-driven platform for artists. Artists post unique/unreleased content, demos, unreleased material, exclusive merch and more. Artists are directly supported by their community: No tiers and one egalitarian price: $3 per month (or support what you want beyond that).

The Featured Artists Coalition

The Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) is the UK trade body representing the specific rights and interests of music artists. We are a not-for-profit organisation, serving a diverse, global membership of creators at all stages of their careers. The FAC is formed by artists, for artists, and we place this ethos at the centre of all […]

Haulix

Digital watermarked music promo delivery. Haulix is a monthly subscription service used by artists and publicists as a secure platform for sharing new and unreleased music with tastemakers around the world. Showcase an album by creating a promo with your WAV or MP3 tracks, photos, PDF attachments, and YouTube videos. We automatically generate a professional-looking […]

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We Are The Hits

We Are The Hits was the first video network to enable creators to legally collect advertising revenue from original covers on YouTube and other streaming platforms, making it the premiere solution for anyone who wants to monetize their videos. Choose from over 3 million songs and 95% of today’s Top Hits.

WhoSampled

WhoSampled is a website and app database of information about sampled music or sample-based music, cover songs and remixes. The WhoSampled app for Android and Apple iOS can also identify the music that is playing around you and show you its samples, covers and remixes.

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Band Theme

Band Theme harnesses all the power of WordPress giving you complete control of your website. Simple to use, full of design templates to get you started, and integrated with the very best music industry practices. Each template can be completely customised using the simple editor. No coding skills required. Complete with a comprehensive user-guide and 12 […]

PPL International Royalties Collection

PPL is a global leader in collecting performance royalties internationally. Also known as neighbouring rights royalties. If you have performed on, or if you control the rights to, recorded music that has been played outside of the UK, then we can help you claim the international performance royalties you are entitled to collect.

Semikols Record Pressing

Riga, Latvian based Semikols press 12″ and 7″ vinyl records using modern NewBilt record presses from runs as low as 200 units up to commercial pressings in the thousands. Printing and packaging covers, sleeves, inlays, labels, stickers in all sizes.

UK ISRC Registration

PPL is the appointed sole agency for ISRCs in the UK. The International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) system is the international system for the identification of recorded music and music videos. Each ISRC is a unique identifier that can be permanently encoded into a recording or music video. Encoded ISRCs automatically identify recordings for PPL […]

The Ins & Outs of Signing a Record Deal

When signing a record deal, one clause can be the difference between picking your singles and losing your vision, amassing wealth and missing out, buying the dream car and leasing the minivan. A tour of the record deal fundamentals, in the second Decoded: Record Deals installment from AWAL.

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Twitch Starter Guide

Save time with everything you need to know about Twitch for musicians in one convenient guide. In this eBook you’ll learn how Twitch works as a platform and the different monetisation sources you can earn as a livestreamer. How to setup your Twitch channel, a breakdown of the hardware and software you need and more.

Bandcamp Artist Guide

This guide covers recommendations for how to achieve financial success on Bandcamp. Learn how artists use Bandcamp to sell 80,000 records each and every day. Followers are key to your success on Bandcamp. Notifications are sent automatically when you release new music or merch, and you can also message them using the Bandcamp Artists & […]

SoundCloud Podcasting

Get unlimited hosting time, access to millions of listeners on SoundCloud and beyond, and advanced stats for every episode. With the embeddable player and RSS capabilities, you can host your podcast on SoundCloud and share to any blog or website and platforms like Apple Podcasts and Stitcher, all from one place.

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Soundrop Distribution

Distribution built for cover song artists. Soundrop make it safe and affordable to legally licence and distribute your music on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, Pandora, Instagram, TikTok and more. Securely license your cover songs and take care of your mechanical royalty payments. No recurring fees, 15% revenue split.

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Pheenix Alpha Record Press

The Swedish based Pheenix Alpha was founded in 2006 by former Toolex Alpha employees and manufacture a slightly modernised fully automatic version of the original Toolex Alpha AD12 vinyl record press. We produce new presses and spare parts for both new and old Toolex Alpha machines.

Vinylkey

Vinylkey is a vinyl record pressed with an unique visual pattern and embedded computer tag. Using your phone to tap the record, like doing tap to pay, will display the proof of authenticity and proof of ownership. It’s an album on the blockchain.

SpaceLoud

Artists share your music with millions of new listeners by working with today’s most powerful influencers on SpaceLoud. You can easily find and work with influencers who fit your budget and criteria. Influencers get paid to share music you love. From new musicians to superstars, you can easily find and work with artists who fit […]

The VinyLab

Brand new, state-of-the-art vinyl record pressing plant nestled in the heart of downtown Nashville, TN. Running modern Pheenix Alpha AD12 record presses offering 12 inch vinyl in 140 and 180 gram weights and black, clear, opaque and translucent coloured vinyl.

Suitcase Records Brisbane

Suitcase Records is a family run and owned record press in Brisbane, Australia, working with individual artists, bands and labels to produce runs of between 100 and 1500 records. Specialising in 12 inch and offering 12 inch vinyl 140 and 180 gram black, clear, and colour vinyl. Using the Chinese manufactured Allegro Line II press.

Demomaster

Specialists of short run (from 10 units), fast turnaround CD duplication, Demomaster offers various CD, DVD and USB services to musicians and business to meet all their optical media needs. Our CD & DVD duplication services are trusted throughout the UK by record labels, promoters, DJs, bands, and venues.

CD Unity

CD duplication and replication service based in UK with fast turnaround. Eco-friendly specialists in CD printing providing a variety of sleeve options like Digipak, Ecopak, Card Sleeve and Jewel Case. With the short runs starting at 25 units and replication starting at 300 units. It takes around 8 working days for CD duplication and 13-14 […]

Belgian Vinyl Pressing Plant

New vinyl pressing plant based in Belgium running two Pheenix Alpha vinyl presses offering 12 inch vinyl from 200 units. Plans to expand to 6 Pheenix Alpha presses by year end 2022.

Sonic Wax Pressing

New Market Harborough, UK based vinyl pressing plant opened in early 2022 manufacturing 7 inch and 12 inch vinyl records. Eight week lead time.

Cyanite Ai

Our artificial music intelligence listens to and categorizes millions of songs in minutes, helping you to deliver the right music content, no matter the use case. Our audio-based Similarity Search lets you find songs in your catalogue that sound and feel the same as a reference track. Cyanite AI compares hundreds and hundreds of acoustic […]

Oktiv.io

Discover contact details for thousands of independent playlist curators. Enjoy unlimited searches for Spotify playlists and discover contact details for thousands of curators. We find their email addresses and social media handles for you. All you have to do is write the pitch.

The Music NFT Show

The first weekly news podcast dedicated to all things music in web3. Hosted by independent author J. Thorn. Each Monday, a new episode will be released, and J.Thorn along with his daughter Q, will discuss a variety of music NFT news and topics. Q will host the weekly artist spotlight and show you what’s hip […]

Water & Music

Water & Music is an independent newsletter and research DAO, on a mission to empower music-industry professionals with the knowledge, network and skills to do more collaborative and progressive work with technology. Water & Music is run by longtime music-tech writer and researcher Cherie Hu.

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Digital Music Distributors Comparison

The most comprehensive and accurate digital music distribution review comparison piece on the web, from musician Ari Herstand. Amuse vs. AWAL vs. CDBaby vs. DistroKid vs. Ditto Music vs. FreshTunes vs. Horus Music vs. LANDR vs. OneRPM vs. RouteNote vs. Songtradr vs. Soundrop vs. Stem Music vs. Spinnup vs. Symphonic Distribution vs. TuneCore vs. United […]

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DistroPunk

Simple NFT distribution for music artists. Sell digital art, film, collectibles, tickets, shares in your songs and much more. DistroPunk enables artists to quickly and easily create and distribute NFTs without knowledge of coding, blockchain, web3 technology or even a crypto wallet.

The Audio Tape People

One of the few remaining companies in the UK to offer a comprehensive audio cassette tape duplication service, fully inclusive of print, packaging and delivery. We manufacture from our own facility in Leicestershire and supply clients across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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RecordingTheMasters

RTM analog audio tapes are made in France, based on the original AGFA and BASF specifications. Our cassette tapes are made up from the same legendary formula as our pro reel-to-reel tapes used in studios around the world. RTM can supply a complete finished product with full customisation to fit your release and offer a wide […]

Music NFT Resource Directory

Music NFT resource directory from Dopr, an ever-evolving mapping of the music NFT ecosystem. Over 250 entries in the database, from creator tools, radio/streaming, avatars, labels, ticketing, royalties, research resources and more.

Playlist Search

PlaylistSearch is a search engine that will help you select the right playlists to submit to. All the Spotify playlists in the database have contact information available. You will be able to contact the curator via email, Instagram or through a link for submissions.

BandCDs

BandCDs provide low to medium volume disc, cassette and MiniDisc production to music industry customers mainly in the UK, but also to over 200 different countries overseas. They have the largest range of vinyl CD colours anywhere in the world and can provide small runs of high quality cassettes with your own audio and artwork on […]

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Qrates

Qrates is a marketplace where artists can create vinyl records and cassette tapes on demand directly for music fans. Crowdfunding on Qrates is a revolutionary way to release music on vinyl without the traditional financial commitments, backers simply pledge to crowdfunding projects by reserving your vinyl or cassette release. Starting at 100 records or 50 […]

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Media Duplication

Media Duplication are one of the last remaining companies in the UK to offer audio cassette duplication, offering a variety of cassette colours, shells and styles allowing you to customise your small or large runs of high quality cassettes. Also offer a comprehensive in-house CD duplication/replication and CD copying service fully inclusive of print and […]

SoundOn

Release your music and reach a global audience on TikTok and everywhere. Maintain 100% ownership and receive 100% royalties. With SoundOn you can distribute your music to in-house partners such as TikTok and Resso, and global streaming platforms such as Apple Music, Deezer, Joox, Pandora, and Spotify.

DistroVid

DistroVid is the easiest way for musicians to get music videos into Apple Music, Vevo, Amazon Music, and Tidal and keep 100% of earnings. Pay only $99/yr to upload unlimited music videos. Hi-def videos on streaming services. Includes 4K videos & custom thumbnails.

Music x Blockchain Ecosystem Mindmap

This online whiteboard by Mighty33 is an extended resource that documents the early and ongoing initiatives converging between music and blockchain technology in general from 2015. The Map is split into categories, streaming, NFTs, events, etc where you’ll find related platforms. Includes an educational hub to learn the basics, and also an NFT guide for […]

Crypto Music History 2008-2022

Curated and designed by Mighty33 and geniuscorp, the Crypto Music History exhibition is a unique display and form of expression dedicated to and based upon the work of the entire crypto music community. It is designed for anyone who may or may not be familiar with but is interested in the underground story of crypto […]

The Knowledge

Music Ally’s weekly free newsletter: an at-a-glance overview of the whirling, weird maelstrom that is the modern music industry. A pick-and-mix of news, analysis and learnings from the industry-standard subscriber service: must-read news from the Bulletin, crucial insights from the Learning Hub and marketing tips from our Sandbox Reports.

Music Marketing Freelancer Rolodex

This Google Doc put together by Amber Horsburgh provides you with a database of professional music marketing freelancers and agencies specializing in: playlist pitching, digital marketing, social media advertising, PR, campaign strategy, product management and creative direction.

The Aux Guide

The Aux Guide is a (printed and online) directory of labels, management, recording studios and plenty of other UK based music services. The guide contains hundreds of services that could prove to be vital for independent musicians up and down the country. Alongside the launch of our physical guide we’ll be adding over 3,000 contacts […]

Teemill

We built Teemill to help musicians sell band T-shirts online. It’s super easy and fast to set up a free band website, and we print your merch sustainably, on demand. Upload your band’s existing design or pick & remix from our library. Choose which products you want to sell and customise your merch shop. We […]

VinylHub

Like @Discogs, for record shops. The mission is to document every physical record shop on the planet. VinylHub is the biggest community-built database of worldwide record stores and vinyl record fairs and events. Over 11,000 stores in the database and over 45,000 users.

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Music Ally Podcast

Analysing vital music business topics in detail, as they emerge. In the Music Ally Focus podcast, Joe Sparrow breaks down important stories with expert guests, who share their cutting-edge knowledge – in about 20 minutes.

Streamline Podcast

The Streamline Podcast is hosted by Mike Warner, author of the ‘Work Hard Playlist Hard’ book and features interviews, tips, tricks, advice and news for creatives hungry to succeed. Whether you are a musician, manager, CEO or entrepreneur this podcast will inspire, inform and educate you.

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Jaxsta

Jaxsta is the world’s only official music credits database. The credits are official because they’re provided directly by more than 290 data partners, including record labels, publishers and industry associations – none of our data is crowd-sourced. With more than 65 million deep-linked pages and 230+ million music credits, Jaxsta is the solution to the […]

Black Artist Database

Black Artist Database (formerly known as Black Bandcamp) is a community-based platform, hosting a wealth of international Black-owned record labels, artists, producers and bands. This crowd-sourced database provides an easy way to search, filter and directly support the creative output of Black artists globally, via their online profiles.

This Week in Music NFTs

This Week in Music NFTs is delivered to your inbox every Monday and is curated by Cooper Turley (aka Cooopahtroopa) with all the latest news and developments in the music NFT space. This Week in Music NFTs lives on Mirror – a leading web3 publishing protocol. This includes tokenized embeds, a tip jar and a […]

Matter Of Fact

Matter of Fact currently have three Newbilt machines that can press up to 30,000 records a month, in 12 inch format and numerous vinyl colours. Short run or a major project, Matter of Fact take care of every step of production, from mastering and lacquer cutting to GEMA registration, creating unusual prints and packaging, to […]

Audius

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Deepgrooves

Eco friendly vinyl pressing plant based in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. Deepgrooves runs brand new Pheenix Alpha AD12 pressing machines and offers 7-inch, 110g 10-inch and 140g/180g 12-inch vinyl pressings and label and jacket printing. Cassette duplication from 50 units.

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Holiday Records

Holiday Records is a full vinyl experience that houses New Zealand’s only vinyl record pressing plant in a purpose-built facility located in the heart of Auckland. Using the latest Viryl WarmTone record press offering 12 inch vinyl pressings in 140 and 180gsm weights and assorted colours (7 and 10 inch to follow). Also offer packaging, […]

The Musicians Guide to Web3

As an artist or manager, you might be wondering what your web3 strategy is going to look like and where you’d even start. Here Justin De Marco lists 14 different options artists have for launching projects in web3. His goal here is not so much to perfectly define each path, but instead to lay out […]

Stationhead

iOS and Android App. Become a DJ or talk show host. Stationhead transforms the traditional radio model. Feature 45M+ songs, through Stationhead’s patented technology stream music directly from your Apple Music and Spotify accounts. Any host can earn financial support from your audience through in-app tips.

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Revelator

Revelator is a state-of-the-art platform for digital music to increase speed, accuracy and transparency of rights management, digital supply chain and royalty payment distribution so distributors, record labels, and artists can focus on being creative.

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Pitching Music to Spotify Playlists

The official guide to how Spotify playlists work, direct from the Spotify For Artists website. Use Spotify for Artists to pitch an upcoming, unreleased song to the Spotify playlist editors. We’ll also add your pitched song to your followers’ Release Radar playlists.

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Kuroneko

Kaneshii Vinyl Press

Kaneshii is a full services boutique vinyl pressing located on the east coast of Canada in Prince Edward Island. Kaneshii Vinyl Press uses the latest Viryl WarmTone technology in vinyl manufacturing, paired with classic vinyl pressing processes. 7 inch and 12-inch pressings in black vinyl and various coloured options.

Third Man Pressing

Detroit, Michigan based vinyl record pressing plant owned by Jack White’s Third Man Records. 7 inch (42g) and 12 inch (130g and 180g) black, clear coloured, opaque and custom coloured vinyl. Minimum 500 units. Operating 12 newly built presses: eight NewBilt Machinery manual presses, four automatic presses: two Pheenix Alpha and two VirylTech.

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Smashed Plastic

Vinyl pressing plant in Chicago, Illinois, using the new WarmTone press from Viryl Technologies. Pressing 12 inch LPs on black vinyl, colour and custom-mixed colours. 7 inch on black vinyl, colour and custom-mixed colours. 160gm and 180gm premium audiophile LPs.

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Spotify Codes

A Spotify Code is a QR-like “scannable” tag that can be used to quickly share or access a piece of content within Spotify. Spotify Codes can be created for artist profiles, brand profiles, playlists, albums, and songs. If there is a Spotify URI, you can generate a Spotify Code.

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Sptfy.com

URL shortener service aimed at converting those unwieldy long Spotify playlist URLs into something short and user friendly eg: Sptfy.com/office-mixtape. Also generates a QR Code. Create a free account and view and manage all your short urls in one place, sort through them all easily, view your url statistics and share your urls through social […]

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Spotify Discovery & Promo

This is the place to celebrate the new and emerging artists you’ve probably never heard of. We welcome artists and creators promoting their work here. You can recommend content by sharing a link in a relevant thread, or you can start a new thread to tell us why we should check a certain track, album or […]

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Digital Music Distributors Comparison

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Artist Management ToolKit

100’s of the most important systems, plans, templates and guides you need to start and run a successfully organised artist management business. Includes starting a management company guide, music business plan template, artist management agreement, artist on-boarding checklist and a contact directory template.

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The Indie Spotify Bible

From the makers of the long running publication The Indie Bible The Indie Spotify Bible ebook contains the contact info for over 5000 Spotify playlists which are categorised by genre so you can easily contact the curators. Includes all available contact information including location, contact name and email, website, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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Kompoz

Kompoz allows musicians from all around the world to collaborate online to create new original music. Use GarageBand, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Studio One, Reaper or any other audio software to record your ideas, then upload them to Kompoz. Invite your friends to collaborate. Sell your finished collaborations on SoundBlend.

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Spotify Community

The official Spotify discussion forums and community blog with over six million members. Including the Rock Star programme, Rock Stars are community users who have proven themselves Spotify experts. They’ve helped countless users, posted great ideas, and shared their favourite music.

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Adobe Free Album Cover Maker

Make your album cover in Creative Cloud Express, and you’ll have a visual expression of your musical art in a matter of minutes. Get started for free. Browse through thousands of standout album cover templates or create from a blank canvas. Make your cover on-brand by uploading your logo and using fonts and colors that match […]

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Musicto Playlist Submission

Free playlist submission service. Submit your music to a Musicto playlist on Spotify, Deezer, Tidal and Apple Music or apply to become a Musicto playlist curator. Playlists are distributed to Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and Tidal.

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Topsify

Topsify is a tool that you can use with Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and YouTube to access the Top 40 playlists in the United States and worldwide. Owned by Warner Music.

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NoiseTrade Music

NoiseTrade Music helps artists & labels meaningfully connect with fans through the exchange of free music for email addresses and postal codes. Join the NoiseTrade music community and manage your uploaded music, receive 100% of tips and get direct access to your fans through email data and blasts.

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Stemit

Stemit is building a brand new audio asset, song stems, from music that already exists, unlocking a valuable and previously untapped revenue stream for the recording industry and a new resource for artists. Stems are song components such as vocal tracks, drum beats, and guitar riffs mixed and mastered for standalone use.

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Replace Cover

Free web-based app to create album cover art for your Spotify playlists. This only works with the Spotify desktop player. You can also change your playlist cover art on Apple Music, Soundcloud and pretty much every other music streaming service out there. Includes integration of Unsplash and their library of free photos.

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British Phonographic Industry

The BPI represents UK record labels, organise the @BRITs, @Classic_BRITs & the @MercuryPrize, co-own the @officialcharts & award UK music sales through the BPI Awards. As a trade body, we champion the interests of our membership which includes more than 400 independent music companies and the UK’s major record companies.

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Soundee

Buy and sell and license beats and instrumentals online. All beats uploaded to Soundee will become instantly available for sale on the social Marketplace. This is a place where artists can discover your beats and where you can connect with other producers.

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MusicDigi

Get your music on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, TikTok, Google Play, Amazon, and more. Release unlimited music for $59.99 a year (keep 91% of royalties) on 100+ music services worldwide. Keep 100% of rights, free UPC and ISRC codes.

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URL Genius

Paste a web URL into URLGenius to compose a new link for your marketing campaign. URLgenius opens the app on your visitor’s mobile device for iOS or Android to the destination that matches the URL. Edit link destinations by platform anytime.

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Smart links for music marketing artist marketing and tours promotion

Linkfire Smart Links

Smart links for music marketing. Easily promote new releases, tickets, and merchandise. Get superior insights with plays, downloads and sales reporting. With more than 50 different music services supported, we make it painless to set up. We match tracks, artists and albums across music services based on ISRC and UPC codes.

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Haulix

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Tunemunk

To submit your best songs to Spotify playlists, head over to one of the playlists that fit your genre the best on the Tunemunk portal. For Spotify playlist curators submitting your playlists to Tunemunk is completely free.

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Soundgizmo

Developed by the team at Synchtank, Soundgizmo is a website and catalogue management system built for small, fast-moving companies who don’t need big enterprise features or integration. Generate more revenue from your catalog with a core set of tools to help you organize, pitch and license your music.

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SubmitHub

SubmitHub makes it easy to contact music bloggers, Spotify playlisters, record labels and more. We give you all sorts of statistics and ways to filter who to send your music to. Editors at Spotify and Apple Music follow our bloggers and playlisters to discover the best new songs. There are currently 2000+ active blogs and […]

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Super Music Vision

SuperMusicVision (SMV) is the vehicle for the creative and professional work of Los Angeles based music supervisor, producer and DJ Thomas Golubic, along with his talented group of colleagues.

Soundplate Playlists

Discover and submit music to Spotify & Deezer playlists, submit your own tracks and submit your own playlists. Free service built to help artists reach hundreds of independent playlist curators. Also have a playlist analyzer to quickly find some helpful statistics and information about any Spotify playlist.

Canva Album Cover Maker

Canva’s album cover maker helps you design album covers to promote your music or audio, even without any graphic design experience. A library of album cover layouts has been created by professional designers, making it as simple for you as a few clicks to create a high-quality designs.

SmartURL

SmartURL redirects users to specific destinations based on their country or device. After entering a default URL, users are able to specify to which country and device-specific URLs they want to direct their traffic. The Pivot smartURL creates a landing page where all users can choose their preferred retailer.

Work Hard Playlist Hard

Work Hard Playlist Hard was always intended to be a resource for all artists, managers, labels and curators. Now, after the success of the the book, it has grown into a school. Everything you need is now here at the HQ: There’s live streams, courses, blog posts, and the podcast.

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Leland Music

London based music supervision, strategy and consultancy. Music people helping brands, ad agencies and film companies tell their stories. You probably already know our work.

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UK Music

UK Music is an industry-funded body established in October 2008 to represent the collective interests of the recorded, published and live arms of the British music industry.

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YouTube Music Artist Channel Playbook

PDF download for the ‘YouTube Music Official Artist Channel Playbook’. This guide walks you through the basics of setting up an Official Artist Channel and how to use YouTube fully to engage with fans, drive video views, and promote concerts & tours.

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Spotify For Artists

Spotify for Artists gives you tools to develop your fanbase and reach your goals on Spotify. Built for artists and their teams, Spotify for Artists helps you to understand your audience, manage your artist profile, and celebrate new releases and milestones.

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Repost By SoundCloud

Distribute unlimited tracks to all major music services like Spotify, Apple Music, Instagram and more. Access premium services to help you get paid for your plays on SoundCloud for $30/year or included in SoundCloud Pro Unlimited. Split payments with your collaborators with ease. Pitch your tracks to top playlists across major music services.

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World Airplay Radio Monitor

WARM conducts real-time radio monitoring to report on what stations are playing your song. From small independent Japanese radio stations to college radios in Canada and national stations worldwide, we monitor radio airplay in 167 countries. With WARM you will always know when and where your music is being played – even on genre-specific stations.

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UK & European Guild of Music Supervisors

Non-profit organisation dedicated to raising awareness and understanding of the role of a music supervisor within the entertainment industries. The Guild is a resource for both emerging and established professionals, as well as the wider industry, providing knowledge of the craft and the evolving media landscape.

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Streaming Music Platform Image Guide

How to claim and update your artist profile on all major music platforms. Complete image and artist profile guide, including tips and tricks for Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Deezer, Tidal, YouTube Music, Beatport and Google Play Music. Put together by digital distributor Symphonic Distribution.

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Amuse

Getting your music out is free and easy with Amuse. Our free distribution lets you put your music on all major streaming services, while keeping 100% of your royalties and rights. Release and distribute your music, get discovered by our record label or boost your independent career by upgrading to Pro. Upload and manage music […]

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RecordSleeve: Custom Record Sleeves

Recordsleeve is the UK online market leader in short to medium run length printed record sleeves, producing authentic bespoke single sleeves and bespoke album sleeves from your artwork. Also print record label inserts for 7/10 and 12 inch vinyl.

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Open Music Initiative

We are creating an open-source protocol for the uniform identification of music rights holders and creators. The Open Music Initiative dramatically simplifies the way music creators and rights owners are identified and compensated.

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Native Music Soho

Award-winning music supervision and production company based in London’s Soho. Native Music Supervision & Production are a creative music company made up of a combination of experienced music supervisors, producers and musicians.

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Tunecore Fan Reviews

Paid feedback and reviews service from distributor Tunecore. Get ratings, reviews, and advice from real music fans. Find out what others think of your songwriting, song arrangement, and overall sound before you release your track. Up to 225 fan reviews & comments. Interactive reviews and data, available online or for PDF download.

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Hypeddit

An arsenal of music promotion and marketing tools. Create download gates, share downloads of your music in return for automatic likes, reposts, comments and followers. Submit your music to blogs, playlists, labels and other influencers. Grow fans on YouTube, Soundcloud & Spotify, Mixcloud, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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Music Marketing Checklist

Checklist for marketing a new record, single, EP or album. Put together on a Google Spreadsheet by uber music marketer Amber Horsburgh of Deep Cuts newsletter fame. The exhaustive checklist of promotional activities goes through successfully marketing a record including best in class examples from Solange, Radiohead + others.

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Pexels

Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable and also easy to discover through our discover pages. Over 1500 images tagged music.

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DISCO

DISCO makes it easy to organize, search and share your music and other files, all in the one place. Artists, labels, managers, publishers, broadcasters and music supervisors around the world use DISCO to organize their files and collaborate with their teams and networks.

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Audiomack

Music streaming and hosting service aimed at artists, podcasters, tastemakers, labels and music fans. Free creators account includes unlimited storage and advanced private links and stats to help you measure engagement and build your fanbase. Discover new artists with Audiomack’s specially curated playlists.

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CD Baby

Make your music available on 150+ streaming and download services around the world, including Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, Amazon, Pandora, YouTube, and Deezer, all for a one-time setup fee of only $29 per album and $9.95 per single. Also offer publishing admin services and sync licensing.