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

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The Slacker Guide to the Music Industry

BBC Radio 1 DJ, Phil Taggart’s ‘The Slacker Guide to the Music Industry’ is a comprehensive 364-page guide (available in print and digital download) and has chapters including: building a fanbase, music videos, management, image, publishing, distribution and streaming, PR and many more.

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Unsplash

All photos published on Unsplash can be used for free for commercial and non-commercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the photographer or Unsplash, although it is appreciated when possible. Over 4500 images titled ‘Music’, brilliant resource for design inspiration.

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Music-Preneur Mindset Podcast

Join Suz (The Rock/Star Advocate) as she lays out everything you need to know to go from struggling DIY musician to confident Music-Preneur, growing a sustainable career in music. Suz is a mindset coach for music industry professionals looking to gain clarity on their goals and find work/life balance.

Squarespace

With social media connectivity, calendars, an elegant audio player, and more, Squarespace gives you everything you need to manage your music online, whether you’re promoting your band website, releasing songs online, or selling merchandise. Add a store to your band website and instantly sell shirts, posters, music, and more.

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Kanjian Starcast

Kanjian Starcast provides you with all the tools you need to manage your label or artist growth in the east and west simultaneously. Distribute your music globally to over 300 stores, collect publishing royalties, sync your music in tv shows, movies and other media, and manage your earnings in our all-in-one application – Kanjian Starcast.

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Cosynd

If you have created content with a collaborator, you need to have a written agreement in place. Cosynd is an essential toolkit that helps you to collaboratively create agreements that gets everyone on the same page about what they own and what they can or can’t do with your content.

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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.

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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Viryl Technologies WarmTone

The WarmTone is a fully automatic, modernised vinyl record pressing system. It is highly efficient, consistent and capable of high quality output and yield. Our equipment and training programs enable any individual, company or organization to produce high quality vinyl records year-round with 7, 10, and 12 inch pressing capability.

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The Husk

A free to use download gate tool that makes it easy for artists, labels and content creators to earn revenue by growing their fanbase. You can choose from a variety of platforms to build a fanbase on including Spotify, SoundCloud and YouTube.

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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.

COVID-19 Freelance Artist Resources

This list is specifically designed to serve freelance artists, and those interested in supporting the independent artist community. This includes, but is not limited to, actors, designers, producers, technicians, stage managers, musicians, composers, choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, craft artists, teaching artists, dancers, writers & playwrights, photographers, etc.

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SoundCloud for Artists

SoundCloud Next Pro, get unlimited uploads. Upload as much music as you want with your community and collaborators. Get paid. Distribute your music on SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube and more. Unlock advanced profile controls and promote your tracks. Grow your audience. Find who and where your fans are to plan promotion, releases, and tours.

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Show4me

Concert and music album crowdfunding. Organize shows with no risk, connect with other music professionals and fans, set up and manage Artist clubs, share the latest news, videos, free tracks, photos. Sell music and merch directly to fans, pre-sell tickets to live online shows, build your music career.

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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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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Tabs Out Cassette Podcast

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

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Songstats

Songstats provides you with a comprehensive overview of how your music is performing across the most important streaming services and download stores. The Songstats mobile app sends push notifications when your tracks are added to major playlists, reach new milestones, and chart in different territories and genres.

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Show.co

With Show.co you can easily launch a Spotify pre-save campaign, run ads on Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and more, reach new listeners with Spotify audio ads, premiere a YouTube video, grow your social media following and build your email list.

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Brexit Guidance for UK Musicians

The ability to travel and work freely and easily in the EU is of paramount importance to UK musicians. Here is Musicians Union guidance, resources and answers to common questions to help musicians understand how Brexit affects their ability to work in the EU.

TuneCore UK

Send your music to more than 150 digital stores across 200 countries and territories around the world. Get daily sales trending for iTunes, Amazon, Apple Music, and Spotify, and keep every penny of what you earn from downloads and streams. From £12.99 per year for unlimited releases. Social media, music publishing admin, merch and manufacturing […]

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WARM Charts

The vision behind the WARMCharts is to disrupt the music industry standard chart structures, by filtering different chart types and covering bigger regions, unlocking new chart types. WARMCharts is powered by WARM and MusicDNA.

Spotify For Podcasters

Spotify has over 299 million listeners across 92 markets worldwide just waiting to discover podcasts like yours. We’re the second most popular place to listen to podcasts in the world. We make it easier for millions of people to find and listen to your podcast. Get your show on Spotify, and see the data and […]

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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.

Big Cartel

Big Cartel make it simple to build a unique online store, sell your work, and run a creative business. Manage your store, fulfill orders, update products, check stats, and run promotions from any device at home or on the go. Just pick one of the affordable monthly plans to fit your needs and budget. Big […]

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Juno Vinyl Distribution

Established in 1997 Juno are one of the world’s leading vinyl distributors and exporters of dance and electronic music. They sell to all the major wholesalers and hundreds of stores worldwide. With exclusive priority access to the UK’s best pressing plant, Juno can deliver fast pressing times of 12 weeks or less from submission of […]

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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.

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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Other Record Labels Podcast

Featuring practical tips for indie record labels, industry insights, and over a hundred long-form interviews with independent record labels. A podcast for the people who run indie record labels and for DIY musicians who self-release music. Hosted by Scott Orr.

Limited Run

Ecommerce, newsletters and tickets for labels, bands and artists. Easily sell and manage physical and digital pre-orders with unlimited uploads, lossless audio and automatic file conversions. A completely free and fully integrated, professional newsletter service. Costs 5% of sales, no monthly fees.

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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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YouTube Digital Events Playbook

A guide to hosting virtual events on YouTube. If you’ve decided that hosting a virtual event is the way to go, here is a downloadable guide (PDF) you can use for making videos and hosting events on YouTube, complete with links to many more resources and video tutorials.

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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.

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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.

Bandtwango

Bandtwango incorporates the best elements of crowdfunding and the traditional artist development process without all the hassle. Founded by music industry veterans, it all begins with a A&R process that ensures that artists who are serious about taking their country music careers to the next level get the attention they deserve.

Music Tech Directory

The global Music Tech Directory allows music tech innovators to showcase their work, disclose ideas, connect with others, research competitors and identify new areas of growth. The Music Tech Directory also serves as an innovation database for musicians, artists and anyone who works in the music industry to assist in finding new tools and services.

Amuse Fast Forward

Fast Forward is a next-generation royalty advance service from Amuse. It analyzes your streaming data to calculate and pay out upcoming earnings when you release music with the Amuse digital music distribution service.

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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AI Audio Generation

Top AI audio generation tools. AI audio generation covers all the tools that generate audio from any kind of input using AI. Very easy to use for presentation or related purposes. List of AI video generation tools.

The Web3 Music Ecosystem 2023

Ziggy Ziggy Music (aka Ben Brown ) created a seven-part visual map of the Web3 music scene to try and piece it all together in different segments. It’s probably the biggest and most comprehensive map of the Web3 music ecosystem so far. The first two sections are live now with descriptions of every platform and […]

Starting A Record Label

The Label Machine provides all the training and resources you need to create and run a successful, profitable record label. Access our step-by-step practical courses, with hours of easy-to-follow tutorial videos and attend monthly live training and member Q&A calls.

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Label Worx

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

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Record Label Business Blueprint

The complete guide to setting up your own record label. The ultimate free blueprint to get set up and running ASAP. Put together by Nick Sadler head of NSDMT management and author of the Label Machine Blueprint record label course.

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Aux Music App

Aux is a desktop Mac app for artists that allows you to sync your music projects in the background and manage your music projects alongside your DAW. Creators can sync files across all devices and with all collaborators using a secure, made-for-music file storage system. Back-up 10GB of music files and collaborate on unlimited music […]

Presave To Spotify

Pre-Save for Spotify campaigns that drive engagement, increase followers and grow streams for independent and major record labels. Pre-save to Spotify campaigns allow your fans to connect on Spotify and automatically add an upcoming album or single to their Spotify library when it is released.

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M-Tech Allegro II

The M-Tech Allegro II is a Chinese built steamless fully automatic vinyl production press developed in cooperation with the Italian MCS Sironi company with automatic and manual operation options, pressing 7 inch, 10 inch and 12 inch records. Also home to the next generation Vivace 1 cutting lathe.

Penny Fractions

David Turner started Penny Fractions newsletter in November 2017 as a way to think through various record industry topics. The newsletter is delivered on Wednesday mornings to over forty-five hundred subscribers across the industry.

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Apple Podcaster

When it comes to marketing your show, think of it as telling the story of your podcast. Use these tips and best practices to help get the word out, so your show can find listeners everywhere. We’ve created a handful of tools that can help drive listeners to your show.

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100+ AI Tools

Misha da Vinci recently tweeted about 100+ Artificial Intelligence tools. She collated the tools together in one handy blog post. Included are tools for a wide range of categories: audio, chatbots, coding, copywriting, design, images, learn and organize, music, photography, product insights, sales, search, video, and writing.

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The Greatest Music NFT Podcast

The Greatest Music NFT Podcast Show, hosted by Billboard charting music producer Beeks Vybe. Every week, Beeks will discuss the latest trends in the web3 space and the music NFTs that are revolutionizing the music industry. He’ll be joined by some of the biggest names in the music industry, as well as tech experts and […]

Beatdapp

Record labels estimate up to 15% of their streaming play count reports are incorrect, leading to millions in missed royalties. Beatdapp track every stream in real-time to create an immutable record secured by a proprietary blockchain. Find out if an artist has engaged in streaming fraud. Simply submit an artist and track ISRC to receive […]

Aptone

Aptone is a SaaS tool for music producers that automatically manages its users’ sounds using cloud and AI. Access your samples in the cloud anytime and find them faster using meaningful tags.

Playlist Push

Over 20,000 independent and major label artists use Playlist Push services to get their music on Spotify playlists and in TikTok videos. Pitch your song to independent music curators that manage organic playlists on Spotify — playlisting promo for all sizes. Promote your music by getting videos made from viral TikTokers. Submit your song to influencers […]

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QR Codes for Musicians

Implementing QR Codes as a musician or artist is beneficial, especially when it comes to promoting your music or shows. Take a look at these creative QR Code ideas so you can make the most out of your marketing efforts. With the MP3 QR Code, you can stand out from your competition by printing the […]

Lybro Records Pressing

Lybro Records Pressing Co. Ltd was established in China in 2020. The eight Newbilt vinyl pressing lines can press a capacity of 300,000 records per month. Choice of 7 inch, 10 inch and 12 inch (in 140g/150g and 180g weights) vinyl pressings in black, opaque and transparent coloured and mixed vinyl options.

Appetite for Distraction

Yash Bagal and Maarten Walraven dissect all things music and tech. They ask each other the hard questions around the trends that everyone talks about.

This Week in Music NFTs

This Week in Music NFTs newsletter 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.

Helping Musicians

The Helping Musicians Podcast is released every Monday covering socials / Tik Tok, music NFTs, Web3, and other generally helpful music shizz.

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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.

PlayTreks

The all-in-one workspace for self-releasing artists and disruptive record labels. Protect, distribute and monetize your music. Manage your music catalogue from compositions to recordings, create albums and release to all major streaming and social media platforms. By creating NFT collections of your release catalogue effortlessly, you can enter the world of Web3 and unlock new […]

Purple Media

Chinese vinyl records pressing plant (since 2019) running Toolex Alpha automatic and M-Tech Allegro Line II pressing machines, offering 7 inch and 12 inch pressings in 140g and 180g weights in black and various coloured options. Lacquer mastering using Neumann VMS 80 lathe.

0xSplits

0xSplits is the decentralized protocol for secure and efficient onchain payments. From public companies to independent artists & collectives, forward-thinking teams use 0xSplits to build custom payment flows.

Liinks

Gather all your links, social media, music, videos, and more in one place. Create a page that matches your style and never worry about changing your bio link again. Use Liinks pages feature to organize all your content, and turn your profile into a mini yet mighty website.

How the TikTok Algorithm Works

Inside TikTok’s “For You” algorithm: a complete guide for artists and musicians. In this piece, Julie Knibbe digs down into how the short-form video recommendation works on TikTok, and what it means for artists and their teams looking to optimize their discoverability on the platform.

Royal For Artists

Get 10+ years of royalty revenue upfront by selling a portion of streaming rights to your fans. Keep ownership of the rest, plus any other royalties like downloads, synchs, and physical sales. You keep creative control. Your fans share in your success. They aren’t here to shelve your album, change your sound, or decide your […]

High Frequency

A weekly newsletter covering the emerging web3 music ecosystem. Artist interviews, round-ups of industry updates, experimental project features, and the occasional sound byte from members of Noise DAO delivered straight to your inbox every Tuesday.

Artist Web3 Strategy

If you’re a music artist aiming to enter the world of web3, it’s essential to have a clear strategy in place to ensure success and avoid burnout. In this post Nvack Collective outline a few key steps you can take to set yourself up for long-term success in the ‘web3 music industry.’

Fanbase Accelerator

An online course and group coaching experience for artists and managers. The Fanbase Accelerator is a self-paced course that gives you the tools to build a promotional plan that scales your music career. The system is built off 12+ years marketing experience at Interscope, Downtown Records, Atlantic, Spotify, SoundCloud, and YouTube Music.

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The Web3 Music Ecosystem 2023

The Music NFT Bible

To help introduce even the most novice NFT enthusiasts to Web3 music, NFT Now cooked up a guide to present a clear and straightforward overview of Web3 music, and all things music NFTs.

Promo Cloud

Comprehensive promotion suite trusted by hundreds of record labels. Design your promotion in mere minutes with the easy to use, feature filled promotion campaign design tool. Prevent tracks being downloaded with feedback lock, apply the rules on an individual or complete promo level. Specify who gets your promotion and when they get it.

Original Works

Collect streaming royalties faster and get paid every day. Original Works Artist Wallet enables creators and rights holders to register their creative work, create smart contracts with collaborators, license rights and content usage, receive royalties as they’re generated, and get paid directly to a digital wallet and manage your digital identity on the blockchain.

Soundplate Clicks

Soundplate Clicks music smart links and pages make it easy to promote music to all of your fans. Music smart links make it easy to promote your songs or albums online. Artist/Label pages bring together all your music, social media and more on one beautiful web page and Bio Links are perfect when you need to add multiple […]

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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How To Make It In The New Music Business

In the 2023 edition of How to Make it in the New Music Business, musicians are introduced to: All the tools available today that helps the strapped-for-cash-and-making-music-in-your-garage artists get booked in venues weekend after weekend. Strategies to effectively leverage your talent to actually make money. How musicians of all levels will develop the mindset to be […]

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Spring

A simple print on demand solution for creating and selling products that engage your fans and help you monetize your content. No cost, no hassle, no risk. Customize over 180 physical products instantly, sell digital downloads, launch NFTs or create any custom product you can think of. Connect a custom domain and have it ready […]

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Fanbace

Browse and select from the Fanbace curated catalogue of globally available products and start creating merch in a few clicks. Connect your store, social profiles and you’re ready to start selling. When an order is placed Fanbace takes over, manages production and fulfilment direct to your fan. No upfront investment in stock or minimum order […]

Press On Vinyl

At Press On Vinyl we have invested heavily in the latest cutting edge vinyl production machinery and software. We can produce anything from traditional 12 inch black vinyl records (140 and 180gsm weights) as well as various opaque colours. Runs from 100-3000 with 12-16 week lead time. Using the brand new Allegro Line II record […]

Music Recommender Systems Explained

Understand how music discovery algorithms work and leverage this knowledge to maximise algorithmic consumption for your upcoming and existing releases. This course has been designed for independent artists and music professionals alike, from label managers to music marketers, playlist pitchers, artist managers and so on.

Sodatone

Understand and visualize artist potential, to find out first about the next big thing. Powered by AI and structured data across millions of artists and billions of songs and videos. There are 100,000 new releases every day. Sodatone’s scouting tools surface the ones most likely to break out, powered by machine learning.

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Doca Vinyl

Vinyl pressing plant in Switzerland offering 12 inch (160g) black vinyl records, 33 or 45 rpm. Doca Vinyl takes care of your order from A to Z. Cutting and electroplating studios provide upstream manufacturing of the stamper needed for pressing. We press with a Toolex Alpha Delta 12 automatic machine from 1979 pressing small runs […]

Vinyl Presents

Vinyl record pressing plant based in Hitchin, Hertfordshire opened in 2017, using four VIRYL Warmtone presses. Lacquer cutting with Neumann VMS66, Neumann VMS70 and Neumann VMS80 vintage lathes. In house label and sleeve printing. 12 inch pressings in standard and heavyweight vinyl in black and coloured vinyl. 7 inch pressings in standard and heavyweight in […]

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The Vinyl Factory

The Vinyl Factory is the only major pressing plant in the United Kingdom and once was home to both EMI and HMV manufacturing. The Vinyl Factory now presses over a million records a year. The Hayes factory is still powered by the utterly unique EMI 1400 Press, pressing standard 12”, 10”, 7” formats to coloured […]

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DMG Music Clearances

When you need music clearance, you need it done fast, you need it done affordably, and you need it done right. Deborah Mannis-Gardner is the go-to expert for global music rights clearances, whether for samples for recordings; song usage in movies, television, and video games. DMG is known for clearing difficult copyrights from artists such […]

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Hand Drawn Pressing

Addison, Texas based vinyl pressing plant offering 140g standard and 180g heavyweight 12-inch pressings in standard black, clear and coloured vinyl. Sleeves, labels and jackets packaging. Founded in 2014 Hand Drawn Pressing is the manufacturing arm of Hand Drawn Records, and is focused exclusively on vinyl record pressing. 1000 units minimum.

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TikBuddy

TikTok online analytics, management and marketing platform. TikBuddy offers full solution for your data-driven marketing and management needs, and a free Chrome browser extension that integrates directly into TikTok to help you run your account with ease.

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.

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Streaming Music Platform Image Guide

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Web3 Ecosystem

This Web3 Ecosystem course aims to provide music industry professionals with the basic web3 understanding needed to identify opportunity areas for their artists and businesses. You will learn about the differences between web 1.0, web 2.0 and web3 and what web3 can offer to music.

Ampsuite

Royalty accounting, content management, distribution and promotion software for the music industry. From royalty accounting and sales analytics to distribution and promotion, Ampsuite’s web based system can help streamline your label management saving you time and money.

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Packaged Sounds

We have a selection of older style manual pressing lines that allow us to produce special colour options effects. These presses are from the golden days of vinyl production, but have been upgraded to reflect innovation in production techniques. We mainly use them for short run and colour with special effects productions. Pressing 7, 10 […]

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The Digest

The Digest is a newsletter curated by Motive Unknown’s MD, Darren Hemmings, that goes out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, summarising the need-to-know news in music, tech and apps. It is free to receive and now goes out to thousands of music industry professionals predominantly in the UK but also in the US and Europe.

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Gotta Groove Records

Cleveland, Ohio USA based vinyl record pressing plant opened in 2009. 7 inch and 12-inch standard 150gsm weight and heavyweight 180gsm vinyl in black and various colour combinations including glow in the dark and splatter. The pressing floor includes eight fully-automatic record pressing machines including two restored and rebuilt SMT automatic 12″ presses and four […]

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Cutadub Dubplate Cutting

Our custom made vinyl Dubplates are professionally cut onto heavyweight ‘Everlasting Vinyl’. Available in either clear or classic black, all of our hand cut Dubplates come with a blank white label, anti-static & cardboard sleeves and the vinyl mastering is included too. We do CD size records, which are great for promos. We do large […]

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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NoiseTrade Music

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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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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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Linkfire Smart Links

Smart links for music marketing. Run a pre-save campaign to make a big splash on release day. Geo-customize 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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3.7K

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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3.6K

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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3.5K

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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3.5K

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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3.5K

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. Showcase an album by creating a promo with your WAV or MP3 tracks, photos, PDF attachments, and YouTube videos. Haulix automatically generates a professional-looking web page for your promo, […]

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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.

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3.4K

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.

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3.4K

Canva Album Cover Maker

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3.4K

SoundCloud for Artists

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3.4K

Streaming Music Platform Image Guide

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3.3K

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.

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3.3K

RecordSleeve

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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3.3K

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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3.3K

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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3.3K

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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3.2K

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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3.2K

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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3.2K

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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3.2K

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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3.1K

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.

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 […]

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.

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.

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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Qrates

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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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2.9K

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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2.9K

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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2.8K

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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2.8K

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.