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Fluence

Send your music directly to curators, music bloggers and other trusted sources. Get feedback from people who want to help you promote your music. Get notified in real-time as people engage and share your music. Follow curators and trusted sources in different genres to see the latest music they like.

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Currents Alpha

Currents.fm is a set of tools that directly supports our grassroots music communities, a community-driven space for music creation, curation, and appreciation. Currents.fm allows users to stream music, discover new artists, and support them with donations or subscriptions. Currents also hosts online events, such as festivals, showcases, and workshops, that feature diverse and innovative music […]

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Tube Accelerator Training

Free training lessons for musicians on how to grow your YouTube fanbase 24/7 on autopilot and make a living from your music. Learn how to wiretap traffic from popular videos within your niche to generate views and learn how you can replicate proven strategies, that multiply views and subscribers.

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Get Noticed On SoundCloud

In-depth post on Pirate.com on how to promote your music and get noticed on SoundCloud. How to promote music on SoundCloud like a pro – learn the best strategies to grow your fanbase and boost your plays. Unlike social media platforms or YouTube, the SoundCloud algorithm isn’t as well understood. However, given the power it […]

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Music Industry Jobs Pages

What to change or find a job in the music industry? Here is a very useful list of go-to websites/places and servers to find music industry job ads put together by London-based music marketing exec Karma Bertelsen as a Google Sheets spreadsheet. You can sign up to be notified of any future resources here.

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Spotify 101 Guide

Free 44-page PDF download from ONErpm. Artists can grow their audiences and enhance their brand by using Spotify intelligently. This best practices guide introduces you to the fundamental steps for a successful release on Spotify. The guide includes step-by-step tutorials on customising your artist’s page, playlists, digital ads, partnered merch and tour services, and friendly […]

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Record Lathe Parts

Record Lathe Parts sell refurbished record lathe cutters, parts, record blanks of various sizes for embossing, and packaging for custom lathe cut records.

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Micro-Chop Newsletter

A newsletter dissecting beatmaking, DJing, music production, rapping, and sampling. Created and written by Gino Sorcinelli.

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Music Industry Yorkshire

Music Industry Yorkshire launched as Yorkshire’s music industry development network in 2010, partnering with like-minded organisations and linking key-players, businesses and events, to provide support, signposting and development opportunities for Yorkshire’s established and aspiring music industry professionals.

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EIN Music Industry Today

Latest worldwide music news for music industry professionals and analysts. Music Industry Today is a music industry media monitoring service provided by EIN News. Press release distribution service and newsletter. The World Media Directory is maintained by EIN Presswire, a press release distribution service, and is a listing of worldwide TV stations, radio stations, newspapers […]

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The AFEM

Association For Electronic Music (AFEM) is an independent, not-for-profit, democratically run global trade association created to connect and represent the common interests of, those companies and individuals whose business is Electronic Music. The global community stands at over 270 member organisations across 28 countries and all industry sectors, representing tens of thousands of industry professionals, […]

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How Artists are Going Viral on TikTok in 2022

Report featuring analysis of all 20 of TikTok’s weekly Top 200 Tracks by Country charts compiled by Chartmetric from January 1 2022 to June 30 2022. The ContraBrand study specifically examined all tracks released in 2022 which went on to become respective artists’ most streamed songs in their Spotify catalog, with a minimum of one […]

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Music Streaming Platform Models

A free PDF (email req.) from the research team at Water and Music, Music Streaming Platform Models ia a comprehensive introduction to music streaming platforms, their underlying payment models, and their consequences for artists’ career and release strategies. It is aimed at anyone interested in getting a better grasp on streaming economics and operations.

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The Aux Guide

The Aux Guide is a directory of record 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 the physical guide, Aux will be adding over 3,000 contacts to the […]

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Penny Fractions

David Turner started the Penny Fractions newsletter in November 2017 as a way to think through various record industry topics from music streaming, to the history of the major labels, high-priced catalogue sales, and much more. The newsletter is delivered on Wednesday mornings to over 4500 subscribers across the industry. Some recent highlights: Does the […]

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Fairsound

Fairsound is a platform for artists (in conjunction with Press On Vinyl) where the financial constraints of producing a vinyl record release are removed. Get the exact amount of records you need based on pre order demand. Fairsound distribute your records direct to fan, reducing shipping costs and environmental impact. Quick turn around for re-presses […]

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Pentos

TikTok analytics and monitoring made easy. Track followers, likes, and comments over time. Keep an eye on multiple accounts in one place, including competitors. Track the use of songs and sounds across all TikTok content. Monitor how often a song is being posted and how many total plays it has.

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Lickd Music Licensing

Lickd is a music licensing platform that allows creators to license popular mainstream songs from the world’s biggest music labels without the fear of losing their ad revenue to a copyright claim. Lickd also offers access to a catalogue of over 100,000 high-quality stock tracks, all completely claims free and affordable.

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Artist Management: A Beginners Guide

Free PDF ebook written by Amy Thomson, the founder of ATM Artists and former manager of Swedish House Mafia. The book breaks down expert knowledge on a range of essential music industry topics, including record company deal options, lawyers, royalty statements, touring, release dates, international marketing and much more.

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Bandcamp Listening Parties

Catch your fans’ reactions in real time while you experience your album together. Fans can pre-order or purchase the album in all available formats directly from the Bandcamp Listening Party. At showtime, the album plays once from start to finish and features the full tracklist and liner notes. Live chat lets you share the story […]

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Veed Online Video Editor

Veed’s online music visualization tool lets you add audio visualizers and frequency spectrums to your videos. It’s a great tool for creating stunning music videos that you can share on social media.

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Codafile Download Codes

Codafile is a website that offers a service for musicians, authors, and artists to sell their digital products with download codes and cards. It allows them to generate and host music, books, and videos on the website and provide their fans with a simple and convenient way to access them.

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T.A.P.E. Muzik

T.A.P.E. Muzik has been manufacturing audio cassettes and accessories in small and large quantities since 2004. From the empty case to the ready-packaged cassette, blank and duplicated cassettes, printing and packaging. Based in Leipzig, Germany.

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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 […]

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Bandtheme

Bandtheme is a WordPress theme specifically designed for bands, DJs, producers and musicians by a team of music industry experts to create a professional music website. It is simple to use, even if you don’t have any coding experience, and comes with a variety of features to help you create a professional-looking website for your […]

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The Music Managers Guide to AI

The ‘Music Manager’s Interim Guide To AI‘ is part of the MMF’s ‘Dissecting The Digital Dollar’ series, produced by CMU. It is a guide for music managers on how artificial intelligence is impacting the music industry, helping them to navigate and understand the opportunities and challenges posed by AI, and offering guidance on how they […]

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Newbilt

Newbilt is a well established German company providing state of the art vinyl record pressing production equipment to the growing global market. We offer brand new production equipment from new machines to complete factories, services and training.    

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Virtual Music Conference

The world’s first online dance music conference. All sessions were recorded on June 4th 2020, your ticket will give you access to over thirteen hours of on-demand video content across 21 different panels and presentations, featuring 55 industry speakers. Organised by Label Worx and Toolroom Records.

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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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First Music Contact

First Music Contact is a resource organization for musicians and the independent music sector in Ireland. They deliver projects at key stages of an artist’s development, helping them develop real careers. Their website has a variety of resources for musicians, including the music portal, Breaking Tunes which showcases new music from Irish artists, and free consultancy […]

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Greenyl

Greenyl is an innovative, PVC-free, 100% recyclable eco-friendly vinyl record developed in Italy. Greenyl is produced in a completely different way from traditional vinyl. The production process is completely automatic and powered by natural energy in order to compensate for part of gas emissions. Moreover, this new production plant allows a faster turnaround for delivery, […]

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Chartmetric

Chartmetric platform helps artists and music industry professionals use data to make better decisions. It collects data from various sources and provides analytics, insights, and reports on streaming, social, and audience metrics. It also helps discover new talent, similar artists, and future trends  

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The State of Music Web3 Tools

This is Part III of a five-part, collaborative research report that the Water & Music community put together and published in December 2021 on the state of music and Web3. It includes a market map of music/Web3 tools, which features nearly 80 different startups putting NFTs, social tokens, DAOs in a music and creator-centric context.

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Musixmatch For Artists

Distribute your lyrics across all the major digital streaming services and social networks. Add, edit and sync your lyrics. Once verified they will be displayed as your official lyrics. Have complete control over your lyrics catalog, credits, profile, and more.

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The Ultimate Guide to Music PR

The Ultimate Guide to Music PR is a comprehensive online resource that covers everything you need to know about promoting your music online. Jeremy Sylvester, a UK electronic music scene veteran, writes it. The guide covers topics such as creating an online presence, developing a brand image, writing a press release, getting music reviews, finding […]

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Ziggy Ziggy Music

Ziggy Ziggy Music is a weekly newsletter from Billboard scribe Ben Brown covering developments and news within the Web3 music ecosystem including music NFT news and latest releases/drops from Web3 music artists.

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SetFreaks

SetFreaks is a platform that takes a new approach to releasing, collecting and monetising digital electronic music. They offer music as strictly limited edition (‘white label’) tracks. This allows artists to build more hype around their releases. Every track on SetFreaks is limited to a certain amount of copies and only available for purchase for […]

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DistroPic

Ai image generator from digital distributor DistroKid, free to use in exchange for your email, simple to use, just type your prompt and choose from one of 19 image style settings.

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Splits App

iOS and Android app. Seamlessly create split sheets in seconds to claim and protect your publishing ownership. Enter necessary information for the track you’ve just finished. Once everyone accepts, Splits will then create an agreement between all parties – ensuring security and transparency for all involved.

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The Creative Passport

The Creative Passport is a digital identity platform for music makers that aims to empower them with more control, transparency and income from their work. It allows them to verify and update their profile, manage their works and rights, and connect with other services and opportunities. The Creative Passport is designed to be user-friendly, secure […]

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Songtrust

As the world’s largest global royalty collection service, Songtrust streamlines the music publishing administration of 3,000,000+ songs. Access the largest network of over sixty pay sources and collection societies in over 145 countries to collect all your publishing royalties.

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StreamOn

Go live once, re-stream to YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and 60+ services. StreamOn brings you a suite of live-streaming tools to help you reach your audience online, grow your fanbase and make money. Go live to multiple platforms – share one simple link. Users see your profile and get redirected automatically to their platform of choice.

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Spinamp

Explore, curate, share and listen to the growing public library of Web3 artists and minted music collections. Powered by blockchain technology, SpinAmp offers decentralised streaming, fair artist compensation, and a vibrant community. Users can discover, stream, and purchase music directly from artists, while artists gain control over their work and receive transparent royalties. Available on […]

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Volume

Volume.com is a 24/7 live music streaming platform where artists, musicians, beatmakers, podcasters, and comedians can sign up to stream at any time, make money with tickets and earn tips. Users can watch live-ticketed or on-demand shows from different venues and festivals, interact with the performers and other fans, and support their favourite artists. Volume […]

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Music Marketing Checklist

Checklist for marketing a new record, single, EP or album. Put together on a Google Spreadsheet by 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 and others.

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Doodooc

Doodooc is a generative music visualising platform that provides a high-quality and cost-effective solution for music makers to create unique animated visualisations. It allows users to create unique and colourful animations that are synchronized with the sound of their music. Users can choose from over 300 templates, customise the colours and resolution, and render their […]

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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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The Featured Artists Coalition

The Featured Artists Coalition (the FAC) is the UK trade body representing the specific rights and interests of music artists. It provides advocacy, education, and support for its members, who are mainly singers, songwriters, and producers. The FAC also curates playlists, hosts events, and campaigns for fairer deals and policies for artists.

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Playlist Rankings

Playlist Rankings is a tool to monitor the rankings of playlists in the Spotify search. They monitor thousands of keywords across 20 countries (more to come) and provide data useful to optimize your playlist SEO. Discover the keywords your playlists rank for and identify opportunities for ranking improvements.  Since search results vary by country, localised […]

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TwoShot

TwoShot uses AI to create and explore music samples from various genres, instruments, and sources. Users can upload their own audio files, or choose from a catalogue of over 200,000 samples created by indie artists and music labels. TwoShot also offers AI models that can generate samples from text, transform melodies, split stems, and more. […]

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Audiogen

Audiogen uses generative AI to generate high-quality sounds for use as samples, instruments, sound effects, or textures. Users can generate sounds from scratch or variate their own sounds, and use them royalty-free in their projects. Generate exactly the amount of audio you need, anywhere from half a second to a max of 10 seconds and […]

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Spotify ISRC Finder

ISRC stands for International Standard Recording Code and is supposed to be the unique identifier for a sound recording. ISRCs can help with the matching of music usage to musical works and sound recordings registered with collection societies around the world. ISRC Finder enables you to find the ISRC for 100+ million tracks on Spotify […]

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Physical Music Products

A new vinyl record pressing plant based in Nashville, Tennessee opened in February 2022. Pressing 12-inch black and coloured vinyl and 7-inch, single, double and box sets. The standard 12-inch record weight is 140 grams, but 180 grams is available for the right projects. The minimum run is 250 copies and turnaround is 5-7 weeks […]

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Reflections Of A DJ

Reflections of a DJ aka R.O.A.D. is a window into the behind-the-scenes, backstage life witnessed first-hand from the DJ booth. Whether the topic is new music trends, emerging artists, industry gossip or prominent shifts in the culture, R.O.A.D. provides invaluable insight and uncensored opinions from music and nightlife’s leading tastemakers….the working club DJ.

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Build Your Own Record Pressing Plant

How did two men from Middlesbrough come to open one of the UK’s first new vinyl record pressing plants in decades? From an empty warehouse with a half-built galvanics laboratory to a bustling factory, Steve Spithray’s book, How To Build Your Own Record Pressing Plant, reveals the story of Press On Vinyl, a record pressing […]

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Mechanical Licensing Collective

The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC), is an organization that administers blanket mechanical licenses for eligible streaming and download services in the United States. The MLC collects and distributes royalties to music creators and publishers who join The MLC as members. The website provides information and resources on how to become a member, how to […]

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Easy WP Guide

The Easy WP Guide is a simple, easy-to-read WordPress manual. You won’t find any talk of HTML, PHP or creating WP Themes here. What you will find is a simple, easy-to-read WordPress manual that will guide you through the process of editing your site content. You can read the Easy WP Guide WordPress manual online, download […]

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Creatives With AI

Listen to in-depth discussions with some of the most influential and important industry leaders in fields such as design, music, publishing, film and video, crafts, visual arts, fashion, TV and radio, advertising, literature, software, computer games and the performing arts. The podcast explores the ethical considerations, benefits, and drawbacks of using AI tools, as well […]

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Even

The future of music is direct to fans. EVEN prepares artists with all the tools and resources to make their music available to their fans and take ownership of that relationship. On EVEN, artists set their price, quantity and access, and get paid instantly after each sale. Artists own and can export their data with […]

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Volume

Volume.com is a 24/7 live music streaming platform where artists, musicians, beatmakers, podcasters, and comedians can sign up to stream at any time, make money with tickets and earn tips. Users can watch live-ticketed or on-demand shows from different venues and festivals, interact with the performers and other fans, and support their favourite artists. Volume […]

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Artists Guide to Chart Reporting

The Artists Guide to Chart Reporting from Single takes a comprehensive look at how to report music sales to top global charts like Billboard, ARIA, and OCC. It covers the types of charts, the reporting process, the tips and best practices for maximizing chart performance, and the benefits of chart reporting for artists. The guide […]

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Music Funding & Grants

Curated by London-based Music Industry exec Karma Bertelsen, the music funding and grants opportunities list is a global collection of 235+ websites to find funding opportunities in music, shared as a Google Sheets doc. You can sign up to be notified of any future music industry resources from Karma here.

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Press On Vinyl

Opened in 2022, Middlesbrough based Press On Vinyl offer full disc manufacturing in-house from lacquer cutting to stamper production and pressing. They can produce anything from traditional 12-inch black and coloured vinyl records (140gsm and 180gsm weights) as well as various opaque and translucent colours. Short runs from 100 units with 10-14 week lead time. […]

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The Ultimate DSP Checklist

Created by Music Industry exec Karma Bertelsen, The Ultimate DSP Checklist is a Digital Service Provider checklist for some key DSPs – Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, YouTube, TIDAL, Pandora, SoundCloud and AudioMack. A lot of artists and industry don’t realise the full breadth of what each DSP offers in terms of features, reports, […]

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Can’t Get Much Higher

Chris Dalla Riva, a musician and data analyst who works at music streaming service Audiomack writes the weekly newsletter Can’t Get Much Higher, where popular music and analytics meet, where he explores music and data-driven musical trends of yesterday and today. Published every Thursday, you get a thought-provoking, often data-driven analysis of some music industry […]

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Cygnus Music

Cygnus Music’s extensive network of stores, streaming platforms, social media sites and content ID systems ensures your music is available and monetised globally. They cover all markets, and territories and distribute to over 200 countries. Cygnus are dance music specialists and have personal communication with dance music outlets, Beatport, Juno and Traxsource and also deliver to […]

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LabelsBase

LabelsBase is a database of 1000s of electronic music record labels from all over the world of all subgenres. Users can search for labels by genre, location and other criteria, and label listings include email and demo submission contact info and website links where available, and links to Beatport downloads. You can follow labels to […]

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Record Label Business Blueprint

By signing up for the Label Machine Start a Record Label Blueprint download, you will get a free PDF ebook that shows you how to start a record label in 7 steps with zero experience. You will also get access to a free workshop that goes behind the scenes of how record labels are built […]

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Bandcamp Vinyl Pressing

Launched in April 2019, Bandcamp vinyl pressing service streamlines vinyl records financing, production and fulfilment. With no up-front investment, you can create a vinyl campaign design your own record, set your own price, and launch a campaign to fund the production. Reach your goal and Bandcamp handles the manufacturing, shipping, and customer support for you. […]

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Where Music’s Going

Weekly newsletter from Rob Abelow, for artists and builders working to create music’s best future. Helping artists navigate music 2.0→3.0  Each week, he breaks down new tools and strategies to grow more connected audiences. Heavy on Web3 and Ai, but covering anything that builds fandom and increases the value of music. 6000+ subscribers.

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Tonic Rider

Tonic Rider is a programme that offers mental health support to music industry professionals in the UK. It provides online and in-person training, workshops, groups and guides to help musicians, crew and others cope with the challenges of the industry. Tonic Rider aims to keep its services free or affordable for everyone.

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The Unicorn Mothership

The Unicorn Mothership offers holistic coaching and wellness training for electronic musicians and music industry professionals. It aims to help them achieve sustainable success in their careers and personal lives by promoting electronic music wellness. The service is run by Eline Van Audenaerde, a certified coach and music industry expert with over 20 years of […]

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How To Dance Sober

How to Dance Sober Podcast has a mission to rebrand sobriety in the music industry and beyond with a new guest every episode. DJs, producers, ravers and party-goers all share their stories about navigating the world sober. Host Tom Bunting is a DJ/producer known as T.Bunts, with a vision for uncovering the joys of dancing […]

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Soundry AI

Soundry AI is a generative music sampler, an AI text-to-sound generator capable of creating studio-quality audio samples on the fly. The Soundry models can create any kind of sample you wish, including percussion, instrumentation, and melodic loops.

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AIBeatz

Generate original beats with AiBeatz in seconds right in your browser and customize them on-click with the assistance of AI music composition. This music creation tool allows you to create unique melodic loops and drum patterns for more than eight music genres and transform them into fully arranged beats in just one click. You can […]

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IndieKnow App

IndieKnow is an app created by experienced music industry pro’s to guide you through every step of releasing your music. Centred around a Release Planner, the app allows you to generate the list of tasks essential to any successful release strategy. The app covers everything from PR to playlist pitching and from scheduling to syncs.

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Rotor

Rotor Videos uses AI to create music videos from users’ songs and images. Choose from over one million stock clips or upload your own. The more clips you add, the better. Rotor Videos analyses the song and generates a video that matches the mood, tempo, and genre. You can choose from over 150 different video […]

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Label Worx

The world’s largest independent digital distribution partner for indie electronic music labels. Label Worx delivery network includes major DSPs alongside emerging platforms that cater for specialist sounds, so whatever your genre they make sure your music gets heard by the right audience. The full suite of label services powers independent brands of all sizes.

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My DJ Cloud

Safeguard your sound with the only backup service made just for DJs. My DJ Cloud is a fast and effortless solution, with mobile streaming and features built for DJs. Install and choose which DJ application you use, it works with Serato, Rekordbox and Virtual DJ right now, with more to follow. All your tags, cue […]

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Network Notes

Network Notes is a music industry newsletter written by Darren Hemmings, MD of the leading music strategic marketing company Motive Unknown. Summarising the need-to-know news in the music industry, technology, marketing and the intersection of all three. It is free to receive and goes out to 3000+ music industry professionals.

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Opulous Music

Opulous is a platform that connects artists and fans through blockchain technology. It allows artists to raise money from music lovers by selling Music Fungible Tokens (MFTs), which are tokens that give holders a share of the music’s earnings. It also offers peer-to-peer DeFi loans backed by music copyrights.

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Measure of Music 2024

Measure of Music is a virtual three-day weekend program to show the impact and importance of data across the music industry and to give current music execs, music industry hopefuls and industry career changers a crash course (and a finished project) in music and data in collaboration with some of the most influential people and […]

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We Are The Music Makers

Reddit’s home for discussing the music-making process – writing, composing, recording, live performance, mixing and mastering. We Are The Music Makers is a Subreddit with 2.7m members, for hobbyists, professional musicians and enthusiasts to discuss music-related topics, ask questions and share useful information. Also, have an associated unofficial Discord.

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Diggers Factory

The Diggers Factory platform enables artists to produce vinyl records, CDs, Cassette Tapes and Merch on demand without any upfront costs through preorders. It offers limited editions of (minimum 100 units) vinyl records in various colours and effects, as well as funding projects for independent artists. Diggers Factory connects artists, fans and music professionals in […]

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YouTube for Songwriters

YouTube for Songwriters is a space created for songwriters, producers, and their teams to thrive on YouTube. It offers resources, insider tips, news, and playlists to help them create, promote, and monetize their music. It also features stories and insights from successful songwriters and producers in the industry. The website is part of the YouTube […]

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SymphonyOS

SymphonyOS is an AI-powered marketing operating system for artists, creators, managers, and indie labels. Symphony harnesses the power of AI to analyse millions of data points and create tested music marketing strategies that artists and labels can unleash with a few taps. Trained on marketing principles and over 125 million fans, Symphony’s AI automatically tracks […]

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TubeBuddy

TubeBuddy is a free Chrome browser extension and mobile app for iOS and Android for YouTube creators that integrates directly into YouTube to help you run your channel with ease with video optimisation, AI and SEO tools. Get more views and subscribers by optimising your videos for organic growth and access all things your channel […]

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AI Audio Start-ups List

Community list of startups working with AI in audio and music technology, hosted on GitHub and maintained by Christian Steinmetz. The considerable list includes categories for music creation and production, music source separation, music analysis and recommendation, health and wellbeing, podcasts, sound detection, speech transcription, synthesis and manipulation.

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Curve Pusher

Hastings, East Sussex based Curve Pusher is one of the UK’s leading vinyl record cutting and audio mastering houses, having been continuously mastering and cutting records for over 23 years. Curve Pusher can cut any of the popular vinyl formats with exact precision. Offering 7-inch, 10-inch and 12-inch vinyl record cutting and mastering for vinyl […]

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Media Duplication Ltd

Founded in 2008 and 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. They can produce high-quality tapes with various options such as on-body print, presentation boxes, and custom cases all manufactured from their own facility in Leicestershire.

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Smart Noise

Smart Noise is a digital platform that helps music artists and labels grow their fanbase and simplify their marketing. It offers features such as Lifetime Pre-Saves, which automatically add new releases to fans’ libraries, Social Ads, which launch targeted campaigns to increase streams and followers, and Email Marketing, which sends automated emails to fans on […]

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Fotor

Fotor’s Spotify playlist and album cover maker offers a library of editable templates and easy-to-use design tools, helping create personalized playlist cover art in just a few clicks. You can create album covers online in a snap with the AI album cover generator. Backed up by an advanced character model, the album cover generator will […]

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Fuga UGC Rights Management

UGC and rights management allows rights holders to monetise and manage their content on user-generated platforms. FUGA partners with Adrev, a leading technology provider for UGC to offer scalable and flexible solutions for content administration and monetisation. FUGA’s UGC and rights management service includes in-house expertise and technology, pioneering claim management and licensing, and enhanced […]

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Getting Into The UK Charts

Help pages from the compiler of the UK music charts, the Official Charts Company. How the charts are compiled, releasing your music the right way, registering a release, meeting the chart rules and information on the chart retailers. The Official UK Album Chart Rules 2023 PDF download. The Official UK Singles Chart Rules 2023 PDF […]

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Spotify Playlist Sharing SubReddit

Hyperactive Reddit forum for (mainly) sharing Spotify playlists with 1.2M Members. Includes a directory of Spotify apps and tools and a Wiki. /r/spotify was primarily created to share cool new playlists that you have made or found.  

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Music Minds Matter

Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Music Minds Matter is Help Musicians‘ dedicated mental health support line and service for the whole UK music community. If you work in music and are struggling to cope or know someone who is, talk to MMM. It doesn’t have to be a crisis, or about […]

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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 Community Chat

The Spotify Community is the official forum where users can engage in discussions, share ideas, and seek help regarding Spotify. It offers various sections such as Chat, Community Guidelines, FAQs, Help, Discovery and Promo, Podcast Discussion, Ideas Vault, Music Exchange, Music Discussion, Social and Random, and more.

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Digital Music Distributors

The most comprehensive and accurate digital music distribution review comparison piece on the web, from musician Ari Herstand. The article compares 17 digital music distribution companies that help independent musicians get their music on streaming platforms and online stores. It evaluates them based on various criteria, such as fees, royalties, features, customer service, and more. […]

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Artist Management ToolKit

100+ 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, a contact directory template and much more.

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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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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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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 PNGimg and Unsplash and their library of free photos.

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SongGrow

SongGrow is a playlist promotion tool that makes playlisting easy for everyone. Fill in your favourite playlist name, genre, mood or artist and the search tool will find playlists associated with it. You will get all playlist data in one clear overview. The search tool has a feature to recognise playlist curator contact information, so you […]

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Kompoz

Kompoz is a music collaboration platform that allows musicians worldwide to create new original music online. Users can use their favourite recording software to record their ideas, and then upload them to collaborate with others. Kompoz also offers a variety of features to help musicians, such as the ability to create private studios, crowdsource tracks, […]

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Soundee

Soundee is an online marketplace where musicians, artists, and producers can buy and sell beats and instrumentals. It features a wide variety of beats, including hip-hop, pop, R&B, trap, and more. Soundee also offers a number of features to help users find the perfect beat for their project, such as a search bar, genre filters, […]

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Adobe Album Cover Maker

Adobe Express is a free online tool that allows you to create custom album covers in minutes. Choose from thousands of professionally designed templates or start from scratch. Add your own images, text, and graphics, and customize the look and feel of your cover with a variety of fonts, colours, and effects.  

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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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URL Genius

URLgenius is an app linking platform that allows marketers to create dynamic QR codes and app deep links that open Amazon, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, or App Store pages. The service offers a free trial and pay-as-you-go pricing, and it does not require any SDKs or coding.

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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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RecordSleeve

Scanplus Print Group is a market leader in bespoke printed record sleeves. They offer various sizes and finishes, including 7-inch, 10-inch and 12-inch sleeves, vinyl labels, printed inserts, and booklets. Their online design system makes it easy to create your custom record sleeve, with the ability to save, re-visit, and amend your design as needed.

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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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Synchtank

Software for managing music assets, rights, licensing and royalties. Synchtank offers a range of cloud-based SaaS solutions for managing assets, rights, licensing and royalties. Whether you’re a music rights holder or music user, Synchtank software is tailored to fit your business.

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Linkfire Smart Links

Smart links for music marketing. Run a pre-save campaign to make a big splash on release day. Geo-customise every fan’s journey to your music—no coding required. Turn social media attention into meaningful engagement with a beautiful, highly scrollable microsite. Easily bring all of your content together, from releases to gigs to merch.

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Soundplate

Create the perfect page to display your music. Artist/Label pages bring together all of your music smart links, social media profiles, event listings and more. All of this is displayed on one responsive web page that you can share everywhere. Discover and submit music to Spotify and Deezer playlists, submit your own tracks and your […]

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SubmitHub

SubmitHub is a platform that helps independent musicians get their music heard by curators, such as music bloggers, Spotify playlists, and radio stations. Artists can submit their songs to curators for free, but they can also pay for premium credits which give them more visibility and a better chance of getting their song heard.

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British Phonographic Industry

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is the trade association of the UK recorded music business. The website provides information about the BPI’s activities, such as the BRIT Awards, the Official Charts, the Mercury Prize, the Music Export Growth Scheme, and the BRIT Certified Awards. The website also features news, research, events, and resources related to […]

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Haulix

Haulix is a platform for secure digital audio sharing and promotion. It allows you to upload tracks, create promo pages, send invitations, and track engagement. It also protects your music with advanced watermarking technology and offers unlimited bandwidth. You can choose from different pricing plans to suit your needs.

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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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SoundCloud for Artists

SoundCloud for Artists platform allows you to submit your tracks for national airplay via SoundCloud Radio on SiriusXM. Start pitching now to get your tracks in the hands of DSP playlist editors, A&R execs, brands, music supervisors and more. Distribute your music to Spotify, Apple, TikTok, and more. Send private links and post tracks for […]

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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.

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MusicDigi

Release your music to every major music service including Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Tidal, Amazon, TikTok, Instagram 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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Spotify For Artists

Once they’ve claimed their Spotify for Artists profile, artists can access their dashboard to track their performance, manage their content, and pitch their music to Spotify’s playlist editors. To get started, artists need to upload their music to Spotify via a distributor and provide their metadata. They can also customise their profile by adding photos, […]

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Leland Music

Leland Music is a music supervision agency that helps brands find the perfect music for their advertising campaigns, films, and TV shows. They have a team of experienced music supervisors who have a deep knowledge of the music industry and a keen eye for finding the right songs for each project. Leland Music also offers music […]

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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. Primarily SMVs work is geared toward that magical merging of music and picture. SMV creates unforgettable moments where the perfect song meets the perfect scene with a […]

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Tunecore Fan Reviews

Paid feedback and review 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 are available online or for PDF download.

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YouTube Music Artist Channel Playbook

Free 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 and tours.

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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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DISCO

DISCO is a cloud-based music library and collaboration platform for music supervisors, rights holders, and other music industry professionals. It allows users to receive, search, organise, discover, pitch, and track music assets from anywhere in the world. DISCO also offers a variety of features to help users save time and work more efficiently, such as […]

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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. UK Music is the collective voice of the UK’s music industry. It represents over 500 organizations, including record labels, publishers, live music venues, and music festivals. UK Music […]

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ALYSIA - Create Original Songs in Minutes

Alysia

Artificial intelligence songwriting app for Apple iOS. Alysia is an app that allows everyone to create original songs in minutes. It uses revolutionary artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to allow everyone to express themselves through song.

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Prime Direct Distribution

Prime Direct Distribution has developed into one of the leading distribution companies in the U.K. managing more than 500 labels for exclusive physical and digital distribution across a multitude of genres and platforms worldwide. PDD offers a bespoke range of label services which covers vinyl pressing, distribution, logistics on the physical side as well as […]

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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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Playlist Push

Playlist Push is a music promotion service that helps independent artists and small record labels get their music heard by Spotify playlist curators and TikTok influencers. They have a network of over 4,000 verified playlists and 3,300+ influencers, and they use an AI-powered algorithm to match your song to the right playlists and creators.

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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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Amuse

Amuse free music 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 the Amuse record label or boost your independent career by upgrading to Pro. Upload and manage music via the Amuse Apple iOS and Android apps.

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Open Music Initiative

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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DistroKid

Get your music into iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Amazon, Google Play, TikTok, Tidal, iHeartRadio, YouTube, Deezer and tons of other stores and streaming services. Keep 100% of your royalties, and get paid monthly. Pay only £17.99 to upload unlimited albums and songs for a year. Free promotional tools like HyperFollow: instantly make a free […]

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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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Music Marketing Checklist

Checklist for marketing a new record, single, EP or album. Put together on a Google Spreadsheet by 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 and others.

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Native Music Soho

Award-winning music supervision and production company based in London’s Soho. Native Music Supervision and Production are a creative music company made up of a combination of experienced music supervisors, producers and musicians.  From creative and thorough music searches, to licence negotiation and track clearance, Native manage projects from concept to completion.

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Audiomack

Music sharing and discovery service aimed at artists, podcasters, tastemakers, labels and music listeners. Free creator’s account includes unlimited storage and advanced private links and stats to help you measure engagement and build your fanbase. Audiomack’s Artist Guide is a free educational resource for artists at every stage of their careers.

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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 $9.99 per single or album. Includes free UPC barcodes. Also, offers various promo tools, artist services, publishing admin and sync licensing.

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