The music industry has never made it easier to release a song. Making a living from those songs is a different problem. Distribution creates access. It does not automatically create demand. Music income is not…
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“The Dead Dance” is about feeling emotionally dead after a breakup, then rediscovering enough joy to dance again. Lady Gaga has explained the song unusually clearly. A relationship ends. For a while, you stop believing…
“Orbiter” is about the people who keep Noah Kahan grounded when fame makes his life feel unfamiliar. The central image is wonderfully simple. Kahan is the astronaut. Someone he loves is the Moon. He circles…
DistroKid and Amuse both target independent artists, but their product structures differ in some interesting ways. Pricing DistroKid currently starts at $24.99 per year in the US. Amuse currently charges $23.99 per year for Artist,…
Artists traditionally decide what to release using a mixture of instinct, management opinion, label feedback and demos. TikTok LIVE adds another possibility: Play the music directly to potential fans before the release exists. TikTok’s Music…
It isn’t really about religion. “Losing my religion” is an expression from the American South meaning something closer to: losing patience reaching the end of your rope or becoming so frustrated that you might lose…
Because “Crisco” is doing three jobs at once. It is the familiar American cooking product. It is a joke about “country” meeting “disco”. And inside Miranda Lambert’s title track, cooking becomes a metaphor for two…
Can you move a song away from DistroKid without losing its Spotify streams? Often, yes. The key is making it easy for Spotify to identify the new delivery as the same recording. Use your original…
A pre-save allows a fan to connect with your upcoming release before it’s available. DistroKid offers this through HyperFollow. What happens when someone pre-saves? The exact functionality varies by music service, but the broad idea…
A normal cover song is already more complicated than an original recording. Add generative AI and another set of questions appears. Can AI perform the song? Can you clone the original singer? Does a normal…
