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…
Tobu’s “Higher” is a vibrant piece of melodic electronic music that turns simplicity into a strength. Built around bright synth textures, a driving dance rhythm and an uplifting lead melody, the track carries the optimistic…
Tobu’s “Life” is a bright, melody-driven electronic track that captures the optimistic sound that made the Latvian producer a recognizable name in the 2010s online EDM scene. Originally published on June 1, 2014, the instrumental…
Tobu’s “Seven” captures the bright, melody-first approach to electronic music that helped define a particular era of online EDM. Released on January 26, 2014, the track sits firmly in melodic house territory, running at 127…
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?…
Tobu’s “Infectious” captures the bright, melody-driven spirit of 2010s electronic dance music with remarkable efficiency. Released in 2014, the five-minute track sits firmly in the house/electronic space, moving at roughly 128 BPM and building its…
Mingkoo works across spatial audio, sound installation and live performance, and gathers all of it under a single idea he calls Aural Presence. ‘Door Talk’ is the lead track from ‘Threshold Studies’, an EP collecting…
MÖWE’s “Birds Flying High” takes one of popular music’s most recognisable expressions of renewal and places it inside a breezy, melodic electronic framework. Built around the Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley composition associated with “Feeling…
Touring is expensive. Choosing cities because they “feel right” can become very expensive indeed. Streaming data gives independent artists a much better starting point. Ditto’s current artist app specifically promotes country, city and listener-demographic data…
