Independent artists can submit eligible music for GRAMMY consideration. But there are deadlines and technical requirements. For the 69th GRAMMY Awards, CD Baby’s current guidance states that eligible releases must fall between 31 August 2025…
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KISU spent six years inside the K-pop group 24K, releasing six EPs and a full-length album with the band and building the run around international touring. He went solo in 2021, and ‘Numbers’ arrives from…
You’ve released a song, spent time and money creating it, and then discover someone else is using your music on YouTube without asking. So, how do you stop others using your music on YouTube? As…
Your music can travel much further than your Spotify artist page. It might appear in: Finding those uses can reveal both marketing opportunities and missing revenue. Start with YouTube Search: Then look beyond exact matches.…
Crying Noise has released steadily since 2023 and has kept the titles in Japanese throughout. ‘Beautiful Requiem’ and ‘Gorgeous journey’ opened the catalogue, ‘人生について – About Life’ followed in 2024, and 2025 alone brought four…
Apple could finally be preparing to launch the HomePod mini 2, nearly six years after the original HomePod mini first arrived. While Apple has yet to officially announce the second-generation smart speaker, reports suggest a…
Deezer is a music streaming service that lets users listen to millions of songs, albums, playlists, podcasts and other audio content online. It works in a similar way to Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music,…
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…
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→…
