You walk into a coffee shop. Your song is playing. Does that generate money? Potentially, yes. Commercial businesses playing copyrighted music generally require appropriate public-performance licences. Those licence fees contribute to royalty systems for rightsholders.…
WhatsApp is making music a bigger part of Status updates, with users now able to share music clips lasting up to 30 seconds. The change doubles the previous 15-second limit and gives users more control…
Music used to have a fairly predictable life cycle. Release the single. Promote it. Hope it charts. Move on. Streaming, films, TV and TikTok have destroyed that model. A song can now become enormous: five…
The 2010s are now old enough to become genuinely nostalgic. That feels slightly offensive. But it is true. Songs released in 2010 are now more than 15 years old, and the current revival of Katy…
Podcasts use music constantly. It may appear as an intro, background track, transition, outro or part of the actual recording. But hearing your song inside a podcast does not work economically in exactly the same…
Katy Perry has said that “The One That Got Away” was inspired by singer Josh Groban. The revelation came years after the song was released and after fans had speculated about several other former relationships.…
If you’ve been listening to blues and soul playlists recently, you may have encountered Enlly. The mysterious artist has developed a substantial streaming audience with soulful vocals and tracks including “Through My Soul”, “Still Here”,…
Breaking Rust looks exactly like the sort of musician country music fans have seen hundreds of times before. Rugged cowboy. Weathered face. Gravelly voice. Songs about resilience, whiskey, hardship and refusing to change for anybody.…
Jerry’s Sound Room has become a surprisingly large name in soul and blues music. Songs such as “No Me Debes Nada”, “Tu Nombre en la Oscuridad” and “Beneath My Skin” have generated millions of Spotify…
Sienna Rose seemed to appear from nowhere. The mysterious neo-soul singer began generating millions of streams with dreamy tracks such as “Into the Blue”, “Safe With You” and “Where Your Warmth Begins”. Her music sounded…
