DistroKid Bank is where artists can see royalties that have been reported and made available through their DistroKid account. Think of it as the financial dashboard between streaming-platform reporting and your real bank account. What…
Author: Radar Team
“Take Me Home, Country Roads” is practically a West Virginia anthem. There is only one slight problem. The road that helped inspire it was in Maryland. Co-writer Bill Danoff was from Massachusetts. And when the…
Brand partnerships are becoming a meaningful part of the independent artist ecosystem. UnitedMasters has made this particularly central to its positioning, and its current True Religion partnership combines independent artists, retail playlists, fashion and live…
If you’ve ever heard a slow Indian song built around poetry, longing, love and an expressive singer, there is a chance you were listening to a ghazal. Ghazal music has been part of South Asian…
Something interesting is happening in Indian music. Haryanvi music is growing incredibly quickly. Once primarily associated with listeners in Haryana and nearby parts of northern India, Haryanvi songs are increasingly appearing on streaming platforms, social…
“Hootie Frutti” doesn’t have a neat dictionary definition. KATSEYE essentially invented the phrase. It plays with fruit imagery, attraction and the familiar phrase “tutti frutti”, creating something deliberately playful and suggestive. The track appears on…
“Linger” came from Dolores O’Riordan’s first serious kiss. Unfortunately for her, what happened afterwards was considerably less romantic. The future The Cranberries singer was 17. She liked a boy. They kissed. She became completely infatuated.…
For decades, popular Indian music and Bollywood music were almost impossible to separate. Some of India’s biggest singers became famous through film soundtracks, with songs often released as part of a movie rather than as…
Grand Theft Auto VI isn’t simply getting a soundtrack. Rockstar is releasing an entire album of original music created for the game. Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album will contain 34 new tracks and arrive…
If you’re British, you may immediately answer: Toploader. Wrong. If you know older American music, you might answer: King Harvest. Closer. But still not technically the original. “Dancing in the Moonlight” was written by Sherman…
