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While this year has been disappointing, there are two types of people responding to the coronavirus. Some are pouting and being affected heavily, while others are adapting and doing better than they ever have. Here’s how you can continue to scale your music career – even if your gigs, shows, and sources of income are non-existent at the moment.

Trademark Your Name: A Musician’s Guide

While you certainly can perform shows and release music with a name that isn’t trademarked, doing so isn’t generally recommended. Here Randi Zimmerman walks us through the necessary steps for securing a trademark for your band/artist name.

4 Tips For Discovering New Fans Through Blogging

Don’t stop at music blogs though—think about some of your greatest passions and hobbies and look for guest blog opportunities on those sites. For instance, if you and your band are passionate about skateboarding, and incorporate it into a lot of your videos, photos, etc, approach a few skateboard-centric blogs and pitch a few topics that you think might be of interest. (Remember: pitching topics is important. You want them to be able to visualize what you’re offering, not leave it to them to come up with an idea).

The Streaming Music Price Wars Have Started

Something many believed to be an inevitable occurrence, it seems the first of the streaming music price wars has broken out. Precipitated by Amazon’s joining of the market, other streaming industry major players like Spotify and Google have dropped their prices in response. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 It was probably only…

digitalradiotracker tracks-internet radio spins.

By, Wendy Day from Rap Coalition A few years ago, I suddenly began getting these weekly emails out of the blue from DigitalRadioTracker. I was excited because they offer valuable chart information for internet radio spins, a growth area I was closely watching. Some of my friends in the music industry have started their own…

The Streaming Effect: The Landscape May Be Gloomier Than Pictured

“The Streaming Effect: Assessing The Impact Of Streaming Music Behaviour” is a new report from MIDiA Research focused on the music market’s reaction to streaming music options and the effects of listeners’ choices on music sales. Listeners have an array of easy free choices, described in the report as a “hierarchy of free,” from which to choose.