DistroKid Ultimate is designed for artists, managers and labels that need more than the standard Musician plans. US pricing currently starts at $89.99 per year, with the exact package depending on the number of artists…
Author: Radar Team
The difference between DistroKid Musician and Musician Plus looks fairly small at first. But for artists trying to run a proper release campaign, it can matter. DistroKid’s US Musician plan currently costs $24.99 per year,…
Toto’s “Africa” was written by a man imagining Africa. David Paich had not experienced the continent in the way the song’s grand imagery might lead you to assume. Instead, the song grew from childhood Catholic-school…
Soft Cell didn’t originally sing “Tainted Love”. Gloria Jones did. Her version was released in 1964. It sounds almost nothing like the icy electronic recording that made Soft Cell famous nearly two decades later. And…
“The Piña Colada Song” sounds like a cheerful holiday song. It isn’t. It is a story about two people in a stale relationship independently attempting to find someone else. They both place or answer personal…
WOMADelaide has started revealing its 2027 lineup — and its first three artists are substantial. Madness, Leon Bridges and Tinariwen will perform at the Australian festival when it returns to Botanic Park/Tainmuntilla in Adelaide from…
Le Guess Who? returns to Utrecht in the Netherlands from 5–8 November 2026 with one of the most adventurous festival lineups of the year. The complete music programme has now been revealed. Who is playing…
YouTube Music is making artificial intelligence a much bigger part of how listeners find music. Google is expanding Ask Music, YouTube Music’s conversational AI feature, with a much more prominent position inside the mobile app…
Most artists click “I agree” and start uploading. That is understandable. Distribution agreements are not particularly exciting. But those terms determine what a company can do with your music and money. Here are 12 things…
Music discovery has always relied on someone deciding which artists deserve more attention. Once, that meant radio programmers, record labels and music journalists. More recently, Spotify playlists, TikTok trends and recommendation algorithms have become some…
