How can Shazam identify a song after hearing only a few seconds? How can YouTube recognise your track inside somebody else’s video? Both rely on forms of audio-recognition technology. For musicians, understanding this technology matters…
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YouTube can be one of the most valuable revenue platforms for musicians, but YouTube monetisation works differently depending on how your music is being used. Musicians can earn money from YouTube through several different routes,…
Atlantic Music Group (AMG) is owned by Warner Music Group (WMG). It isn’t an independent company – it is one of Warner’s two main US recorded-music label groups. The structure is roughly: Warner Music Group→…
Suno has launched Studio 2.0, a major update to its browser-based AI music production platform, adding MIDI support, an AI-powered chat assistant, advanced stem separation, new audio effects and automation tools. The update represents another…
‘Upon the Tree’ opens ‘Dear My Soul’, a six-track collection from Listen to Hymn released through Underlying. The sleeve states the terms without ceremony: piano solos, and a verse from Matthew 11:28 about rest offered…
A common worry among new artists is: “Should I copyright my song before I upload it to Spotify?” Distribution and copyright are two different things. Submitting music through a distributor does not magically create the…
The cover tells you where to stand. It is a photograph of a sky after sunset, orange settling along a ridge line while the blue above it has not yet given way, with the title…
Music analytics are getting faster. Artist tools increasingly provide daily or near-real-time information on streams, listeners, locations and playlists. Ditto’s current app positioning makes live music data a major product feature rather than a back-office…
Rozu is a Seoul indie R&B and soul singer-songwriter who runs her own label, and ‘Beautiful Love’ is an English-language single built around the clear mid-tone voice she is known for. It follows ‘Same Old…
Getting added to a Spotify playlist feels good. But the important question is not simply whether a playlist added your track. It’s whether the placement actually created useful listeners. Where can you see playlist activity?…
