VYRMA seemingly appeared from nowhere. In May 2026, the project’s Linktree profile was created. A few months later, VYRMA has more than 160,000 monthly Spotify listeners and hundreds of thousands of streams on individual tracks.…
Leave a Legacy is one of DistroKid’s most interesting Album Extras. It also reveals something important about the economics of subscription music distribution. What is DistroKid Leave a Legacy? DistroKid says Leave a Legacy prevents…
VYRMA’s music is becoming increasingly popular, but one very simple question remains surprisingly difficult to answer. Who is actually singing? VYRMA has created a distinctive identity around powerful female vocals, Nordic imagery and a recurring…
VYRMA may be one of the more mysterious new artists to emerge from the Nordic music scene in 2026, but there is at least one human name that repeatedly appears behind the project. Marios Demetriou.…
India is rapidly becoming one of the most important music markets in the world. From Bollywood and Punjabi music to Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, hip-hop, electronic music and independent artists, India has an enormous and increasingly…
Amazon and Google spent the best part of a decade putting smart speakers into homes around the world. Amazon now says there are more than 600 million Alexa devices in existence. That is an extraordinary…
Doechii’s “Anxiety” is built around “Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye featuring Kimbra. If the instrumental instantly sounds familiar, that’s why. But there’s another twist. Doechii originally made “Anxiety” years before becoming a…
Suwannee Hulaween returns to Live Oak, Florida from 22–25 October 2026 with four days of electronic music, jam bands, indie, funk and psychedelic sounds. Pretty Lights, My Morning Jacket, Excision, Geese and host band The…
Instagram is making it clearer when an account represents an AI-generated person. The platform is replacing its previous “AI creator” description with an AI-generated profile label. For musicians creating virtual or AI-powered artists, this is…
DistroKid and UnitedMasters both offer unlimited distribution and 100% streaming royalty retention on their standard paid artist plans. But they feel like very different products. DistroKid DistroKid starts at $24.99 per year in the US.…
