Robyn. Not Calum Scott. The Swedish pop singer released the original “Dancing on My Own” in 2010. It is an electronic dance-pop record about watching the person you want with somebody else while you remain…
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Stopping a music-distribution subscription isn’t like cancelling Spotify Premium. Your own music catalogue may be affected. DistroKid operates an annual membership You pay for continued access to the platform and distribution service. DistroKid’s Leave a…
“Smalltown Boy” is about a young gay man forced to leave home after experiencing homophobia, violence and rejection. The song was released by Bronski Beat in 1984. Forty years later, it remains one of the…
“Love Is You” by Carol Williams. Italian producer Spiller took elements of the 1977 disco recording and turned them into one of the defining dance tracks of 2000. Then Sophie Ellis-Bextor added a vocal. And…
A distributor receives an audio file. How could it possibly know that part of the recording came from somebody else’s song? One answer is audio fingerprinting. What is audio fingerprinting? A fingerprinting system creates a…
New jack swing is the moment R&B and hip-hop properly started living in the same house. Smooth R&B vocals. Hard programmed drums. Funk. Rap. Synthesizers. Samples. And a distinctive swung rhythm that made the music…
“More, More, More” by the Andrea True Connection. More specifically, LEN built the famous groove in “Steal My Sunshine” around a sample from the instrumental break of the 1976 disco hit. Once you hear the…
“Asha” is Asha Bhosle. The legendary Indian playback singer. And the “45” is a 45 RPM record. So “Brimful of Asha on the 45” is essentially an image of a record overflowing with the music,…
Because of a dance. Forty-one years after its original release, Madonna’s “Into the Groove” returned to the UK Top 20 in 2026 after becoming attached to a viral social-media trend. Fitness creator Gymskin helped ignite…
The music playing in your local café, clothes shop or hair salon could soon be powered by Deezer – but not through the Deezer app you might already use at home. French music rights organisation…
