Music - Issue #51

Collecting a paycheck from streaming services has been a headache for up-and-coming musicians. This LA startup built a thriving business around solving that problem.

Sometimes the statistics around how many people are streaming music – and how many are paying for it – can lead to confusion and misinterpretation.

Flighthouse and Republic Records have partnered on the new TikTok series “Certified Superfan,” in which Republic artists surprise their biggest admirers.

The technology that found.ee uses to help artists like Graves promote their releases and tours didn’t exist for the music industry a decade ago.

The Strokes and Diplo both have deepfake music videos created by The Fakening, the meme page that went viral for putting Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos into Star Trek.

TikTok, the hugely popular social media app, found a lot of early traction by giving users a way to create funny lip-synced versions of clips from well-known songs and then share them with friends (its predecessor in the West was even called Musically). Now at long last, TikTok’s owner, China’s ByteDance, is doubling down on […]

Twitter is testing its own version of Stories. The company announced today it will begin to trial a new sharing format called “Fleets,” starting in Brazil, which will let users post ephemeral content to its social network for the first time. Unlike Tweets, Twitter’s new Fleets can’t receive Likes, Replies or Retweets. And they’ll disappear […]

How Cameo turned D-list celebs into an addictive monetization machine.

Ariana Grande stans and lo-fi enthusiasts alike are using the workaround to upload not-exactly-legitimate music to the streaming platform.

How to get more followers and streams as you work toward support from Spotify’s Editorial Playlists.